you keep tabs on what russia is up to. do you believe, having seen what they tried to do in 2016, that russia is going to try to make a concerted effort to disrupt american democracy in this year of midterms, 2022? well, having led the investigation when russia massively intervened in our elections in 2016, i think the american system, the western systems have gotten better at protecting our election security. but on the capacity of the russian cyber operations, this has been the dog that hasn t barked. the russian military may be a bit inept, but we ve seen. there was a cyberattack called solarwinds where russia gru got into 18,000 companies. luckily, they only used it to take out information rather than shutting down those companies. but as we saw in the notpetya attack, where russia launched against ukraine in 2017 and that rebounded around the world because the malware knew no network boundaries, that we know they ve got these capabilities. and quite honestly, it has been
better at protecting our election security. but on the capacity of the russian cyber operations, this has been the dog that hasn t barked. the russian military may be a bit inept, but we ve seen. there was a cyberattack called solarwinds where russia gru got into 18,000 companies. luckily, they only used it to take out information rather than shutting down those companies. but as we saw in the notpetya attack, where russia launched against ukraine in 2017 and that rebounded around the world because the malware knew no network boundaries, that we know they ve got these capabilities. and quite honestly, it has been probably the greatest surprise that russia did not shut down the internet in ukraine, that there s still videos getting out, that they ve not launched a more massive cyber attack against whether it be america or the west. but the notion that they don t have. is it coming, in your view?
i think the american system, the western systems have gotten better at protecting our election security. but on the capacity of the russian cyber operations, this has been the dog that hasn t barked. the russian military may be a bit inept, but we ve seen. there was a cyberattack called solarwinds where russia gru got into 18,000 companies. luckily, they only used it to take out information rather than shutting down those companies. but as we saw in the notpetya attack, where russia launched against ukraine in 2017 and that rebounded around the world because the malware knew no network boundaries, that we know they ve got these capabilities. and quite honestly, it has been probably the greatest surprise that russia did not shut down the internet in ukraine, that there s still videos getting out, that they ve not launched a more massive cyber attack against whether it be america or the west.
that russia is going to try to make a concerted effort to disrupt american democracy in this year of midterms, 2022? well, having led the investigation when russia massively intervened in our elections in 2016, i think the american system, the western systems have gotten better at protecting our election security. but on the capacity of the russian cyber operations, this has been the dog that hasn t barked. the russian military may be a bit inept, but we ve seen. there was a cyberattack called solarwinds where russia gru got into 18,000 companies. luckily, they only used it to take out information rather than shutting down those companies. but as we saw in the notpetya attack, where russia launched against ukraine in 2017 and that rebounded around the world because the malware knew no network boundaries, that we know they ve got these capabilities. and quite honestly, it has been probably the greatest surprise that russia did not shut down
investigation when russia massively intervened in our elections in 2016, i think the american system, the western systems have gotten better at protecting our election security. but on the capacity of the russian cyber operations, this has been the dog that hasn t barked. the russian military may be a bit inept, but we ve seen. there was a cyberattack called solarwinds where russia gru got into 18,000 companies. luckily, they only used it to take out information rather than shutting down those companies. but as we saw in the notpetya attack, where russia launched against ukraine in 2017 and that rebounded around the world because the malware knew no network boundaries, that we know they ve got these capabilities. and quite honestly, it has been probably the greatest surprise that russia did not shut down the internet in ukraine,