Former NSA Director Has His Eye on China, Data Center Pushback
That year, he got three middle-of-the-night calls. Placing the country first on a list of four cybersecurity adversaries, he credited its increasing sophistication—"they're no longer a loud, noisy actor"—and cited such long-running campaigns as the Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon incursions into US networks. “As a private citizen, I think it was the Iranians,” he said.
- ▪That year, he got three middle-of-the-night calls.
- ▪Placing the country first on a list of four cybersecurity adversaries, he credited its increasing sophistication—"they're no longer a loud, noisy actor"—and cited such long-running campaigns as the Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon incursions i
- ▪“As a private citizen, I think it was the Iranians,” he said.
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A veteran Washington operator’s keynote at a cybersecurity conference served as a reminder that some of the field’s hardest problems involve people, not programs.“We're dealing with a new tempo that is completely different,” Paul Nakasone, retired Army general and former National Security Agency director and US Cyber Command leader, said at ThreatCon1, an event hosted by VulnCheck in Virginia this week.Calling himself “a self-preservationalist,” Nakasone recounted how he started his NSA tenure in 2018 by writing a “wake-up criteria” list of events warranting a call to him at any time. That year, he got three middle-of-the-night calls.
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