Lets dive right in that this is not your first book on cybersecurity also you worked with your coauthor ten years ago called cyberwar. And that with some of your great reporting but that as appropriate footnotes. We wrote cyberwar and we said things then that militaries would become dominant in cyberscape in the landscape and attack each other in cyberwar and infrastructure would be part of the target set. And not with that damage and destruction. And sell at one level i decided to write this book to say we were right. [laughter] but also what has changed in those ten years. And we were right about some things but we were wrong about others. Guests, the military has become the dominant threat factors looking at the major attacks in the last three years that were military. And if you look at the targets they are going after infrastructure just last month the United States were less said we penetrated the power grid. And then just to attack them. And what was wrong as everybody ten did y
Footnoted. Ten years ago i wrote a book called cyberwar and we said things own one then that military would become dominant. And then attacking each other in cyberwar infrastructure is the target set. And im not just stealing information speak in and we were criticized. So at one level wrote this ten years later just to say we were right. But we also wanted to say what has changed . And while we were right about some things we were wrong about others. So if you look at the major taxes of the last three years for the russian militarys. So if you look at that target set the United States more or less admitted the power grid is the infrastructure target. But with the largest destructive attack and other than attacking them and stealing information so we were wrong you cannot defend yourself. We were talking to dimitri the other day and he said you can have all the defenses in the world but if the massage is after you you are screwed. So the major difference of the landscape from ten years
Lets dive right in. This is not your first book on cybersecurity. You coauthored on cyber were. Why follow up with this book now and what has changed . Guest thank you for reading the book and you may find some of your work and some of your great reporting referenced in the book. All appropriately footnoted. 10 years ago we wrote a book called cyber or and we said things than that militaries were going to become dominant and threatened the landscape of cyberspace and militaries will attack each other in cyberwar. We said infrastructure would become part of the target set and there could be large damage and destruction. Not just spewing information and at the time we were criticized. There was a great review in wired that said it was fiction. At one level we decided to write this book to say back, now we were right but we also wanted to say what has changed in 10 years and while we were right about some things we were wrong about others. Yes the militaries have become the dominant threa
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