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Olson: Small non-state groups now possess former nation-state cyber attack capabilities

Matthew Olson · a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity · Jan 2, 2019 · at 2:23

Matthew Olson, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, discusses the proliferation of advanced cyber attack tools to non-state actors at the a16z Tech Policy Summit.

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“We see individual small groups of people, as you said, gaining the capabilities of what were nation state capabilities in terms of the ability to carry out attacks from just a few years ago.”

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Small non-state groups and individuals are acquiring cyber attack capabilities that were restricted to nation-states just a few years prior.

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