This book is an extremely relevant must read for anyone concerned with the current cyber threat against United States' national and economic security. Over the past few years, the U.S. has increasingly been the victim of sophisticated and significant cyber attacks by state-sponsored and malicious individual actors. These threats have progressively targeted the U.S. military and political systems, financial institutions, healthcare systems, electric grid, dams, and retail sectors. The total extent of damage and loss we may never know... until it's too late. In 2019, revenues from malicious cyber actors exceeded the combined revenues of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. In a single year more than 3 billion U.S. accounts were hacked. These malicious actors are aggressively investing in talent, technology and tactics. They are coordinated, trained, highly sophisticated, and most importantly...undeterred.Despite formidable U.S. government and private industry cyber capabilities, the nation lacks the necessary strategy for integrated cybersecurity. Its current policy leaves its privately-owned critical infrastructure struggling to defend itself against a rapidly growing cyber storm which threatens to undermine and envelope U.S. cyber defenses. The result is a nation highly vulnerable to cyber threats which could expose the U.S. to a potentially catastrophic impact on national security and the economy.Through detailed analysis and real-world military strategy, healthcare, and financial sector experience, the author presents a pragmatic remedy to securing the nation against cyber threats. Using coercion and other instruments of statecraft, this book explores the art of strategy to devise a public-private means to effectively influence cyber threats, along with the vernacular and constructs necessary to carry it out. . This book goes beyond academic policy; it is a battle-cry to action offering practical solutions for every nation's leadership when Confronting the Cyber Storm."In this book, Banks has concisely laid out a compelling, well-documented case for a coercive strategy as part of an overall national cybersecurity strategy. His case studies make clear the need. His recommendations reveal a deep understanding of the threat as well as of the tools available to government and private industry to meet it."Eric J. McNulty, MA, Associate Director and Program Co-director Harvard University's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a joint program of the Harvard Chan School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government."Banks delivers an incredibly relevant book for our time. Full of rich detail on the state of all things cyber, he calls out the deficiencies in current Western cyber strategies and pitches a comprehensive coercion strategy to protect our future. The wise will heed his call to action, turn the tables on malicious cyber actors, and give them something meaningful to worry about." Dr. Christian Watt, Colonel, USAF, Associate Dean U.S. Air Force War College "This book offers a much-needed structure to policy discussions surrounding cyber conflict. Col (ret) Banks' important perspectives offer a cogent pathway to think about and operationalize cyber strategy. While many "strategies" for cyberspace exist, they are more often than not policy pronouncements rather than "strategy" in the classical sense of the term. The frameworks he provides offer a pathway for ends, ways and means the United States should go on the offensive as a nation to confront aggressive adversaries in the cyber domain and more broadly integrating cyberspace into our toolkit for national statecraft and grand strategy."Dr. Pano Yannakogeorgos. Clinical Associate ProfessorNew York University, Faculty Lead - MS Global Security, Conflict & Cybercrime

Using real world examples from SolarWinds to the Colonial Pipeline attack, Confronting Cyber Risk provides CEOs and cyber newcomers alike with a cutting-edge strategy to mitigate an organization's operational, reputational, and litigational risk to malicious cyberattacks in an evolving cyber risk landscape.

The new US National Cyber Strategy points to Russia, China, North Korea and Iran as the main international actors responsible for launching malicious cyber and information warfare campaigns against Western interests and democratic processes. Washington made clear its intention of scaling the response to the magnitude of the threat, while actively pursuing the goal of an open, secure and global Internet. The first Report of the ISPI Center on Cybersecurity focuses on the behaviour of these “usual suspects”, investigates the security risks implicit in the mounting international confrontation in cyberspace, and highlights the current irreconcilable political cleavage between these four countries and the West in their respective approaches “in and around” cyberspace.

The experts of the International Working Group-Landau Network Centro Volta (IWG-LNCV) discuss aspects of cyber security and present possible methods of deterrence, defense and resilience against cyber attacks. This SpringerBrief covers state-of-the-art documentation on the deterrence power of cyber attacks and argues that nations are entering a new cyber arms race. The brief also provides a technical analysis of possible cyber attacks towards critical infrastructures in the chemical industry and chemical safety industry. The authors also propose modern analyses and a holistic approach to resilience and security of Industrial Control Systems. The combination of contextual overview and future directions in the field makes this brief a useful resource for researchers and professionals studying systems security, data security and data structures. Advanced-level students interested in data security will also find this brief a helpful guide to recent research.

There's a storm brewing, and your business is right in its path! Despite all of the time and money you invested in your business, this cyber storm threatens everything you've built. Your financial portfolio. Your employee productivity. Even your customer base. Years ago, these "cyber storms" were simply rain showers of inconvenience - worms and viruses that merely slowed down your computer. Today, striking without warning, they are virtual F-5 tornadoes that are destroying small businesses in their paths. It all starts with a data breach where hackers steal private data from customers and employees. Next, they lock you out of your files until you shell out tens of thousands of dollars in ransomware payments. Exorbitant fines, lawsuits, lost sales and a crippled reputation quickly follow. That's because today's cybercriminals know the secrets to gain illegal access to most any computer and network. To stay one step ahead of these cybercriminals and protect your network from a data breach and ransomware, you need the right team to safeguard your network and protect your data. The cyber security experts in this book are a great start. These 16 IT services firm owners have years of experience and firsthand knowledge to help protect you and your business from today's hackers. The information in Cyber Storm can save you a ton of time, energy and expense in protecting what you've worked so hard to build.

News breaks all the time that hackers have attacked another company. Media outlets regularly cover cyber events. The President issues executive orders, and Congress explores cyber legislation. With all these events happening, business leaders must ask: what does this mean for my business and me? Facing Cyber Threats Head On looks at cyber security from a business leader perspective. By avoiding deep technical explanations of “how” and focusing on the “why” and “so what,” this book guides readers to a better understanding of the challenges that cyber security presents to modern business, and shows them what they can do as leaders to solve these challenges. Facing Cyber Threats Head On explains that technology is not the answer to cyber security issues. People, not technology, are behind emerging cyber risks. Understanding this brings to light that cyber protection is not a battle of technology against technology, but people against people. Based on this, a new approach is required—one that balances business risk with the cost of creating defenses that can change as quickly and often as attackers can. Readers will find here a ready resource for understanding the why and how of cyber risks, and will be better able to defend themselves and their businesses against them in the future.

As new technologies develop, terrorist groups are developing new methods of attack by using the Internet, and by using cyberspace as a battlefield, it has become increasingly difficult to discover the identity of attackers and bring them to justice. The seemingly limitless boundaries of cyberspace has allowed virtually anyone to launch an attack from a remote and anonymous location. But once these attacks occur, it raises several important questions; who should respond, and how?; how should nation-states effectively deal with a cyber-attack?; and will the United States and other nation-states be able to survive in a world where virtual boundaries are limitless? In Cyberthreats: The Emerging Fault Lines of the Nation State Susan Brenner gives a thorough explanation of how military and law enforcement personnel respond to these attacks and why bringing cyber-terrorist to justice can be difficult and sometimes impossible.