i have been speaking to steven silberstein, president and ceo of the financial services information sharing and analysis centre. they work on cyber threats across the finance industry. steven, thanks so much forjoining me. steven, let s start with this because you have members in ukraine, how serious is the threat from russia that they are facing right now? well, we do not have any measures of how widespread, we do know that there have been continuous attacks. we have been reading about them. we know of attempts to take over websites and deface websites. we know of distributed denial of service attacks, ddos for short, where volumes of traffic are targeted, huge volumes of traffic are targeted at a website to disrupt its operation and attempts to disrupt the computers that are behind that. but the ukrainians have shown amazing resilience throughout this whole process, both in their physical
there may be a number of reasons behind this, not least the fierce resistance being put up by the ukrainian people. but there are fears these capabilities may be turned towards the west and its businesses as those sanctions bite. i have been speaking to steven silberstein, president and ceo of the financial services information sharing and analysis centre. they work on cyber threats across the finance industry. steven, thanks so much forjoining me. steven, let s start with this because you have members in ukraine, how serious is the threat from russia that they are facing right now? well, we do not have any measures of how widespread, we do know that there have been continuous attacks. we have been reading about them. we know of attempts to take over websites and deface websites. we know of distributed denial of service attacks, ddos for short, where volumes of traffic are targeted, huge volumes of traffic are targeted at a website to disrupt its operation and attempts to disrupt the c