The Cipher Brief

“We’re really good in crisis… If you are campaigning day to day on a persistent basis, you are presented with these challenges and you deal with them now, so we’re not then trying to respond solely in a crisis scenario… We are being campaigned against. We have to start doing the same thing to our adversaries.” - Lt. Gen. Charles Moore, former Deputy Commander #TheCipherBrief

CISA Director Jen Easterly “The big story from the last couple years that everyone should be paying attention to — businesses, large and small critical infrastructure owners and operators — is really about the actor that is known as Volt Typhoon, that has been working to embed, burrow into our most sensitive critical infrastructure, not for espionage, but rather for disruption or destruction in the event of a major crisis in the Taiwan Strait. So this is a world where a war in Asia could see very real impacts to the lives of Americans…across our nation with attacks against pipelines, against water facilities, against transportation nodes, against communications, all to induce societal panic and to deter our ability to marshal military might and citizen will.” #TheCipherBrief CISA Alumni Group

Sue Gordon, Partner, Gordon Ventures / Former PDDNI, #ODNI “What are our statutes and norms when it comes to cyberspace? What is our policy? And I'm talking cyber today, but…what about space? What are policy, the norms? These are essentially ungoverned spaces that nation state actors are going to increasingly exploit.”

“I’m not absolving entities necessarily of their responsibility to keep their customers safe, but at the end of the day, I think we should stop looking at the victims and saying, Why didn’t you patch that piece of technology? And ask the question, Why did that piece of technology require so many patches?” - @CISAgov Director Jen Easterly @CISAJen at Cyber Initiatives Group 2024 Winter Summit

Frank Cilluffo, Director of Auburn University's McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure “In addition to small and medium sized businesses, state, local, tribal, territorial (entities), where do they fit in? They face the same risks all our federal agencies and others do and don't necessarily have the resources they need to fight back.” #TheCipherBrief McCrary Institute for Cyber & Critical Infrastructure Security

#CISA Director Jen Easterly   "At the end of the day we should stop looking at the victims and asking why didn’t you patch that technology, but rather ask why the technology needs so many patches” #TheCipherBrief CISA Alumni Group  

“The next phase of artificial intelligence is the application phase… That also means the attack surface for other actors is going to grow exponentially… If we think that #AI is now slowing down, No, we are just now getting into things.” – Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, former Commander #TheCipherBrief DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center

“You can’t divorce geopolitics from cyber anymore. If something is popping in the world, it will have a cyber aspect.” – Frank Cilluffo

“This #AI arms race with offense and defense is really coming to a head. … Counter AI and #cybersecurity are really coming together.” – Former #CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Jennifer Ewbank #cyber #tech

“Let’s talk private sector but let’s not let the government off the hook, because it’s nation state actors that are targeting us” Hon. Sue Gordon #TheCipherBrief #CIG2024