About the session
Cyber Attacks becomes one of the type of weapons that will change the world’s security landscape of critical infrastructures: 1. Outage of national critical infrastructure: we know that cyber attacks can disrupt government networks, but most current cases simply do not rise to the level of a national security threat. Stuxnet – and Iran’s alleged retaliation against Saudi Aramco – has shifted the thinking on cyber war from theory, closer to reality. But have we seen the limit of what cyber attacks can achieve, or could cybercriminals threaten public safety by downing a power grid or financial market? 2. Cyber Defence: if Nation-States and world leaders begin to view cyber attacks as a strategic weapon that can be used for offensive and defensive tasks, cyberspace will become the next battlefield. Snake malware has recently shown in the Ukraine the potential of espionage rootkits that are capable to destroy complete networks. Several Defence organisation are creating Cyber Task Forces for defensive and offensive activities to protect or attack critical infrastructures. 3. New actors on the cyber stage: the revolutionary nature of computers and the amplification power of networks are not exclusive to the world’s largest nations. Iran, Syria, North Korea, and even non-state actors such as Anonymous have employed cyber attacks as a way to conduct diplomacy and wage war by other means. The conference will deliver discussion and thought provoking presentations on many of the serious critical infrastructure protection, management and security issues and challenges facing the industry.
