2022-03-30 CERIAS - Richard A. Clarke "Now That We’re in a Hybrid War…"

The war Russia has waged on Ukraine has seemed largely kinetic, but the most effective weapons weilded thus far have been consumer technologies. Putin has pursued a hybrid warfare strategy, yet the Ukrainians have fought his mendacious claims with the realities of conflict captured by mobile devices and social media. Bogged down by guerilla fighting in Ukrainian cities, Putin will view offensive cyber action and aggressive information warfare as increasingly appealing options. Richard Clarke, former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counterterrorism, and the nation’s first “Cyber Czar,” will give us an inside look at what the world has learned about the spillover of warfare in an era of advanced cyber threats.

In his latest book, The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats, Clarke delves deep into the political and economic calculations of cyber conflict. He also provides concrete steps that can be taken to achieve cyber resilience, during peacetime and amidst international conflict, including building more resistant systems and raising the costs for escalations in cyberspace.

Recorded: 03/30/2022 CERIAS Security Seminar at Purdue University Richard Clarke \(Visit: www.cerias.purdue.edu\)