Cybersecurity
Safety in cyber
Cyberattacks often make the news – especially when the target is military or political. Indeed, earlier this year, a German military call about a hypothetical weapons delivery to Ukraine was leaked to Russian media. Global headlines, as well as recrimination, political blowback and questions about protocol and digital security, all followed. To fi nd out more about the practices and technology meant to nix such occurrences – and how widespread the cyber threat is – Dan Cave spoke to Jean-Paul Massart, chief at Nato Digital Workplace Centre and Nato Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency), to learn more.
Films from 1983’s War Games, to the oh-so-’90s Hackers as well as the initial Matrix trilogy, have won over audiences. It’s not hard to understand why. Such movies glamorise the high-stakes nature of hacking and cybersecurity. Not only is digital security centrally
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aining illicit access, via digital means, to purposefully guarded information has long been a distracting subject for movie directors.
important to militaries, governments and the future of humanity but it also comes with an overlap of Hollywood sexiness and technological possibility as well. Away from the big screen, however, and the present reality of cybersecurity and digital espionage can be much more prosaic. Despite the Hollywood treatment making the details of hacking seem rarefied, cyber espionage, at least in the fraught world of global geopolitics and
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