China has been accused of hacking into American critical infrastructure. The Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance responded by urging companies to protect themselves.
But increasingly simply raising cyber defences no longer suffices in the domain of cyber competition.If anything, the rules of engagement in cyberwars are proving fundamentally different to those of normal, physical wars.and repurposed for positive or negative use. Network intrusions can be done for defensive reasons.
Instead, the winners effectively exploit their adversaries’ computer networks and determine the conditions those adversaries must compete in. Initiative, not force, is the key factor, the authors write. And for initiative to win, it must be applied persistently.on thousands of Microsoft exchange servers.Once Microsoft became aware of the vulnerability on its exchange servers, the company issued a security patch.
“Cyberspace is actually a human-made structure that is mutable”, said Michael Fischerkeller, one of the theory’s US-based authors. “Because it is mutable there are a few ways to alter its structure in ways that favour you or disfavour an adversary.” Hence Five Eyes, and large technology providers like Microsoft becoming increasingly vocal about the steps needed to block exploits.
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