western west, and right now because so many western cybersecurity firms have pulled western cybersecurity firms have pulled out of russia and stop updating their software the russians are even updating their software the russians are even more vulnerable than they have been are even more vulnerable than they have been before this work. let are even more vulnerable than they have been before this work.- have been before this work. let me ut some have been before this work. let me put some of have been before this work. let me put some of the have been before this work. let me put some of the things have been before this work. let me put some of the things we - have been before this work. let me put some of the things we have - have been before this work. let me. put some of the things we have been talking about the error panel. doug, just going back to energy, which we were talking about with barbara, a lot of things i said about donald trump, but he was right on this issue ab
some of the heat on the companies. it s one thing to just, you know, ban these payments. but i think the companies need to be in a better position to sur survive these incidents if that s the case. how do you mach them better able to? there are dozens of cybersecurity firms out there charging millions of dollars to the companies to better protect themselves. yet, the hackers still get through. i just i don t know i covered this for a while. i don t know what is working. of course, the success stories don t make the head monica lewinsky like the fallure stories. is anything working? well, i think we we do have some success stories. we are constantly getting ahead of a lot of the operators through awe lot of our intelligence programs. we ve been able to make calls and get people to make the right moves at the right times to stop these incidents in their tracks. but that takes resources.
u.s. systems. the good here is that we caught this really quickly. the last blast of emails came on tuesday. microsoft caught it. a couple of other cybersecurity firms caught it. the white house is saying this is a good news story, they caught this quickly. some are saying, yes, this is sophisticated but didn t rise to the level of solarwinds. maybe it was intentionally designed to go below that threshold. at the same time, we are seeing russia be very aggressive just a few weeks before. biden sits down with putin and there are certainly senior democrats today, like adam schiff, saying the sanctions didn t go far enough. we need to impose stronger consequences. i want to read this statement by mark warner to you. we must make clear to russia and any other adversaries they will face consequences for this and any other malicious cyber activity. that s what senator mark warner, chairman of the senate intelligence committee said.
Sundar Balasubramanian, managing director at CheckPoint India, a cybersecurity solutions firm throws light on Indian firms vulnerabilities in cyberspace and the new risks emerging due to the transition to 5G technology