There’s good news and bad news about the current state of cybersecurity, according to Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake, co-authors of the new book, “The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats.”
“We need to separate what is happening with corporations, where the news is relatively good because the technologies are getting better and it is now possible if you spend enough to defend yourself,” says Clarke, a former adviser on intelligence and counterterrorism in three presidential administrations. “We need to separate that good news from the bad news that governments are behaving badly – governments are engaging in increasing cyberattacks and boasting about it.”
In an interview with Information Security Media Group, Clarke says he’s concerned that more cyberattacks of a sufficient gravity will lead to kinetic responses and prolonged conflicts.
“We actually have had a government engage in a conventional or kinetic attack because of cyberattacks – the Israelis, frustrated by the cyberattacks on them by Hamas, flew F-16s and bombed the…
