sophisticated cyber i happening? we have a - sophisticated cyber defence system here with a bunch of talented people. we have seen an increase in attempts and it has been pretty remarkable. we got the shields up and have not had any issues. so just to give you some numbers here, typically, what is normalfor us is about 3 million a week but with the ukraine situation that increased above 30 million a week. so this is normal stuff but, like i said, the shields are up in the administration has been working with us to make sure we get support for this and we have not had any issues to date. issues to date. that is toby rice there. issues to date. that is toby rice there, the issues to date. that is toby rice there, the chief - issues to date. that is toby i rice there, the chief executive of e0 t. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: and providing hope amongst the turmoil brands such as marks & spencer and asos say they will offer jobs to the ukrainian refugees as they begin to
m mandiant company discovered it by chance. the question was, a technique they used to get into that software supply, have they used that to get into the thousands of companies that do software supply to other companies? what is the option for the biden administration responding? how does the u.s. respond if putin does this? first thing we want to do and we re doing it now is to raise our defenses. i said years ago that we should do shields up and the homeland security department has taken that slogan on. shields up. there are things we can do now that we wouldn t normally do day to day, to make our security heightened. and the next few days and weeks and months, you can t always have everyone on tipity toes at the highest level of security. there are things you can do if you re expecting an attack. the department of homeland security, their cybersecurity agency, csia, has a list of things you can do if you re a company to be on higher alert.
to pair with health and human services to be sure we shore up our critical health infrastructure. we know vladimir putin has the capability but can that be done in time? we re talking about shoring it up now. this is a threat that existed prior it russia s invasion of ukraine, as we know. how concern ready you this may be too little too late? i don t think it is too little too late. i think we have to heighten our awareness because we have been doing these things through dhs, si they have a shields up program, they have been working with critical infrastructure. we have seen our hospitals already be attacked by ransomware. our hospitals, healthcare centers are no stranger to this. they have been working with our agencies already. this is just going to give them increased heightened awareness. wea we re going to be sure they have every threat interceptor they need, we re pitting ev ingput e the radar so we can deter every
On February 25, 2022, two days after Russia began its military invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a rare ‘Shields Up’ warning for U.S.-based organizations, stating: "Every organization large and small must be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity."