Quotes by Dmitri Alperovitch - Page 1

Russia is a Tier 1 cyber power.
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The U.S. government is actually exceptionally vulnerable.
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Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.
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Cyber
Espionage
Benefit
Lucrative
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I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.
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Compromised
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The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.
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Destruction
Theft
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Chollima is actually a national animal of North Korea. It's a mythical flying horse.
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Flying
Horse
North Korea
Mythical
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If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.
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Data
Secure
Stole
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It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.
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Selected
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The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.
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Defense
Even Worse
Everyone Else
Travels
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Fancy Bear actually went after opposition research and, specifically, research related to the Trump candidacy.
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Candidacy
Fancy
Related
Bear
Specifically
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We should enable the private sector to engage in self-defense in the cyber world like we do in the physical world.
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Cyber
Private Sector
Self Defense
Enable
Physical World
Sector
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When I see something like Russian intelligence services interfering with our electoral process, I find that incredibly offensive.
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Electoral Process
Offensive
Electoral
Interfering
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AI is going to be extremely beneficial, and already is, to the field of cybersecurity. It's also going to be beneficial to criminals.
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Beneficial
Ai
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Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.
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Psychology
Victims
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Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.
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Ordinary
Stolen
Hundreds
Millions Of Dollars
Transnational
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What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.
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Costly
Rarely
Risky
Targets
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A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.
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People Way Born
Any Other Way
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I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.
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Categories
Compromised
Divide
Entire
Global
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The Chinese need to be held accountable for their continued attempts to steal IP and trade secrets through cyber-intrusions into commercial companies.
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Accountable
Attempts
Held
Ip
Steal
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In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it works the exact same way.
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Activity
Engaged
Political Parties
Russia
Assume
Exact
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Cyber criminals are good... but they cut corners. They don't spend a lot of time tweaking things and making sure that every aspect of the attack is obfuscated.
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Aspect
Corners
Cyber
Time Good Things
Tweaking
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CrowdStrike stands fully by its analysis and findings identifying two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries present in the DNC network in May 2016.
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Adversaries
Analysis
Identifying
Network
Stands
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Out of any country on the planet, I can't think of a country that has been more focused than Iran from the high levels of government on cyber, and that includes the United States.
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Cyber
Iran
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Every world leader is trying to figure out who Mr. Trump is, especially if he's elected president, and they want to know what his foreign policies would be. Russia is no exception.
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Exception
Russia
World Leader
Elected
No Exception
Policies
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Organizations, whether they are nonprofits or enterprise, need to be aware that nation-states are coming after them for political espionage, economic espionage, or destructive attacks.
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Destructive
Enterprise
Espionage
Attacks
Organizations
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In the physical world, we would never blame the victim of the assault for that assault taking place, but yet we do so all the time in the cyber world. I think that's completely misguided.
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Assault
Blame
Cyber
Misguided
Time World Never
Physical World
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The GRU is used for both tactical intelligence collection in the battlefield in support of Russian military operations and also strategic active measures or psychological warfare overseas.
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Military Operations
Operations
Psychological
Strategic
Tactical
Warfare
Battlefield
Measures
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Advanced nation-states are now using cyber power for unrestricted economic warfare and national security-motivated espionage, as well as a force multiplier and signaling instrument in conflicts.
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Cyber
Espionage
Warfare
Advanced
Conflicts
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After the investigation of Operation Aurora, the cyberattack on Google from within China that was revealed in 2010, I realized a completely new type of security strategy and technology was needed.
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Investigation
Strategy
Operation
Revealed
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With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it's GRU, which is Russia's military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it's FSB, the Russian federal security service.
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Cozy
Fancy
Low Level
Military Intelligence
Russia
Bear
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You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves patriotic individuals and will take broad direction from government policies.
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Eastern
Eastern Europe
Hackers
Patriotic
Population
Russia
Broad
Government Policies
Policies
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It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks - is not serious. It's really just nuisance.
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Nuisance
Anonymous
Attacks
Sites
Web
Web Sites
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I think it's safe to say that the Russians are extremely interested in anything that has to do with the U.S. political system. And it's not out of the realm of possibility that they are in many other systems.
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Possibility
Russians
Political System
Realm
Systems
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At CrowdStrike, we look for traces of the adversary and try to find out who the adversary is, what they are after, and what their tradecraft is. We also disseminate that information to enable collective action.
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Adversary
Collective
Disseminate
Enable
Traces
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The Internet is a global resource that does not belong to any one nation or alliance. It has contributed to amazing economic growth, collaboration, civil education, and awe-inspiring lifestyle improvements for billions of people.
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Education
Amazing
Awe Inspiring
Billions
Collaboration
Economic
Economic Growth
Growth
Internet
Lifestyle
Alliance
Does
Belong
Civil
Nation
Global
One Nation
Resource
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Obviously, you have the DNC engaged in communication with lots of different parties, and anything you can use to gain intelligence about what's going on in the U.S. political system and what the candidates are thinking is of high interest to Russian intelligence.
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Communication
Candidates
Engaged
Gain
Political System
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We've been worried for some time that one of the ways that North Korea can retaliate against further escalation of tensions is via cyber, and particularly attacks against our financial sector. This is something they have really perfected as an art against South Korea.
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Cyber
Escalation
North Korea
South Korea
Worried
Attacks
Retaliate
Sector
Tensions
Via
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In 2018, my biggest worry is actually about North Korea. I worry a great deal that they may do a destructive attack, perhaps against our financial sector, in an attempt to deter a potential U.S. strike against either their nuclear facilities or even the regime itself.
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Destructive
North Korea
Nuclear
Attempt
Deter
Facilities
Great Deal
Sector
Strike
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While cyber espionage is having a tremendous negative affect on the global economy from the theft-caused drain of intellectual property and the resulting adverse incentives for continued investments in innovative growth, the threat from destructive and disruptive attacks is amplifying the risks even further.
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Adverse
Cyber
Destructive
Disruptive
Economy
Espionage
Global Economy
Growth
Incentives
Innovative
Intellectual Property
Negative
Property
Threat
Affect
Attacks
Tremendous
Drain
Further
Global
Resulting
Risks
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A rapidly growing number of nation states have determined that cyberespionage is a highly valuable tool not only to steal national and military secrets but also to pillage the most valuable business information from international competitors and pass it on to domestic industries to help them out-innovate and out-negotiate their rivals.
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Competitors
Determined
Rivals
Valuable
Domestic
Industries
Rapidly
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