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Day 3: Dispatch from RSA Conference

Posted: February 16th, 2017

This week I am attending the RSA Conference, a global convention bringing together government and business approaches to secure the digital channels people depend on every day. To catch up on what has been buzzing in the public presentations and private corridors of this year’s RSA Conference, check out my previous dispatches from Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference.

Yesterday kicked off at the crack of dawn with a heavy dose of cyber warfare and weapons beyond the infamous Stuxnet worm that was found crippling Iran’s nuclear program in 2010. Gary Brown, a cybersecurity professor at Marine Corps University and former legal counsel for U.S. Cyber Command, began with the terms “warfare” and “weapons,” suggesting that to be described by such language, a cyber capability must damage or destroy property, or directly cause death.  Most cyber attacks, he suggested, would be more accurately described as espionage.

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