Lesson we've learned from Ukraine
Not all defense tech is bleeding-edge cyber — or kinetic — warfare tools. Sometimes the best defense is as boring as ... backups.The rest of the world should take this lesson learned from the Russia-Ukraine war to heart, said Rob Joyce, director of the US National Security Agency's cyber security arm, speaking at the recent Silverado Policy Accelerator summit.
"Ukraine has been under tremendous cyber pressure for years, long before the invasion," Joyce said."And so they, by necessity, had to learn from that. They got religion about backups; they got to the point where their sysadmins understood how to respond to a breach, clean up, and move on. They were practiced."
Backups aren't sexy. But in a real-word cyberwar, they kept the Ukrainian communications, government and critical infrastructure online despite a year of dozens ofAnd in addition to having backups in the first place,"think about the practical step of checking your backups," Joyce said."You don't want to find out in a crisis that your backup process didn't work and it wasn't able to restore a key aspect of your business.
Another defensive strategy that isn't as exciting as, say, AI-based threat hunting tools to help warfighters defend their networks? Practice. Ukraine had years of practice repairing their networks in the wake of Russian cyber attacks, including recovering from
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