When Nations Attack: Cyber Warfare Against Critical Infrastructure

The geographic remoteness of our island shapes the Icelandic psyche, and we approach cybersecurity as if there is an outer layer of protection against attackers.

There isn’t one.

In the era of cloud, mobile, and working from home, ransomware gangs and the nation-state groups that attack our allies can readily hack our employees and break into our sensitive systems. However mournfully, we must urgently rethink how we defend our society against today’s attacks.

In this talk, I will analyze how nation states actors attack Western countries. The data shows that our focus must shift from protecting an impossibly porous perimeter to instead mounting _inside-out_ defenses. I will describe how these ideas can be put into practice, and how our unusually technologically savvy nation can seize this opportunity to better protect our critical infrastructure and the security of our society.