Putin wages asymmetrical cyber warfare due to a low defense budget
Stu Sjouwerman · 716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year · Jul 10, 2017 · at 13:10
Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of cybersecurity training firm KnowBe4, explains to Nathan Latka why Russian state-sponsored cyber attacks target US institutions.
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“Vladimir Putin is essentially waging a sort of a low-grade cyber war against the U.S., which is, in his perspective, asymmetrical warfare, because they only have 10% of the defense budget that we do, and so he's harassing U.S., you know, both profits and non-profits with all this, you know, essentially golden ransomware, that's the best example.”
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