When the chips are down, we find that governments, businesses, communities and individuals all depend upon each other. We need look no further than our collective successes and failures in managing the COVID-19 pandemic to see this. And the same is true in managing the escalation of conflict in cyberspace: We need to work together.
Unfortunately, we’re not.
State-led and state-sponsored cyberattacks have transformed the internet into a new battlefield. This wartime metaphor implies, however, old school thinking of front lines and fortifications, of surgical strikes and heroic last stands. Instead, the reality is that cyber conflict isn’t happening ‘somewhere over there’ but rather ‘right here, right now’ — and all of us are targets.