General Paul Nakasone, the head of US Cyber Command, told Sky News that 'the brutal unjust invasion of Ukraine, by Russia, is tantamount to something that democratic nations just cannot stand for' and hailed the 'really powerful' partnerships that are responding to it.
By many measures General Paul Nakasone, the man who heads both US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, is the world's most powerful decision-maker when it comes to setting the rules of international cyber conflict.
Representatives meet around events such as CyCon, hosted by NATO's Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia, to discuss what is right and wrong when conducting or defending against computer network attacks.
"I think if you were to go to talk to any of our partners that work with us, either US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, one of the things that those nations would tell you is we get and we give, this is not a client relationship. This is a partnership upon which both nations get value."
Unlike in classical models of shooting wars where armed forces compete against each other to control territory, conflicts that have a cyber dimension involve operating in computer networks that are controlled by private companies - and these companies have a significant ability to shape the outcome of those operations.
General Nakasone described Cyber Command's hunt forward operations - when defensive experts are deployed in a country to hunt for attackers on that country's computer networks - as an example of the benefits of partnership. The Russian armed forces have"clearly, clearly performed below expectations" during their invasion of Ukraine, he said:"We've seen this in terms of their initial focus on Kyiv, their inability to synchronise their operations, their retreat from what was their central focus in being able to take the capital city of Ukraine.
General Nakasone added:"One of the things that we certainly learned is the importance that the Ukrainians have placed on having a resilient network. "My job, and all of this, is to provide a series of options to the secretary of defence and the president. And so that's what I do. And that in the policy piece, is obviously handled by those within our Department of Defence," he explained.
She stated:"We don't negotiate our security assistance packages to Ukraine. The Kremlin has not been pleased by the amount of security assistance we've been providing to Ukraine since far before this most recent phase of conflict began.
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