{"id":17312,"date":"2022-02-28T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/ukraine-invasion-means-your-security-needs-to-be-on-point-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:01:05","slug":"ukraine-invasion-means-your-security-needs-to-be-on-point-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/ukraine-invasion-means-your-security-needs-to-be-on-point-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine invasion means your security needs to be on point \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Opinion<\/span> Stress-testing security is the only way to be sure it works. Until then, the worst security looks much the same as the best. As events in Ukraine show, leaving the stress-testing of assumptions until a threat is actually attacking is expensively useless.<\/p>\n

Yet if an untested solution is no solution at all, the problem becomes how you define an adequate test. In security, that means how far do your responsibilities go?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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There has been no shortage of attacks on Ukrainian IT over the past few weeks, with new and nasty malware and DDoS ramping up. Any more widespread aggression will follow the same model.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We may be about to find out together. As of the time of writing, the horrific aggression against Ukraine hadn’t spilled out as cyberattacks beyond the territory.<\/p>\n

It would be folly to bet on that continuing, especially as sanctions<\/a> start to hurt and isolation freezes around Russia: commercial interests, personal data, and national infrastructures around the world will all be legitimate targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That much is clear from the newly decloaked Putin. By way of justifying the invasion, he made a speech saying that Ukraine is not a country, that the West is an evil empire, and that Russia’s security concerns are paramount. This thinking gives him licence to pursue attacks on anyone and anything online.<\/p>\n

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