Defending Against Collateral Damage from Cyber Warfare

Room: HBS G15

The 2017 release to the wild of military grade cyber weapons, and their subsequent use against ‘civilians’ on the internet, for example in the WannaCry, and NotPetya, campaigns, has changed the cyber threat grid for companies, and for governments. This presentation will review research on collateral damage from cyber warfare, vs. traditional kinetic warfare, and introduce a strategy for defending against such collateral damage. A ‘Defcon’ framework for adapting network security to extreme temporary risk spikes is proposed.