how often is this happening? oh, gosh. we are at a daily battle level. this is like the u.s. navy submarine service, the silent service. every day there are professionals in the government and private sector who get up and do cyber battle, monitoring, patrolling, pushing back, retaliating, planting seeds, seeing where the next attack is coming from. this is the new battlefield, and until american corporations and the government get their act together and raise the notch, we re going to be behind the 8 ball. talk to me about those battle plans because at the top you said if we launch an attack, part of what we would need to be prepared are is a counterattack. what are the other options that are on the table? yeah, you know, for as long as we had a department of defense, we had battle plans. if china moves into taiwan, we do this. if north korea does this to south korea, we do this and this. we don t have sophisticated, planned-out battle plans for all of this.
code that they use for their malware actually makes it certain that it will never attack a russian target, you can bet that putin is permitting this. this is essentially state-sanctioned, state many of approved cyber terrorism. we shouldn t care whether it s criminals or putin s government. they are now one and the same. russia also targeted the republican national convention but failed to recover data. how often are these hackers trying to gather intelligence? oh, gosh. we are at a daily battle level. this is like the u.s. navy submarine service, the silent service. every day there are professionals in the government and private sector who get up and do cyber battle, monitoring, patrolling, pushing back, retaliating, planting seeds, seeing where the next attack is coming from. until american corporations and the government get their act together and raise the notch,