Battling terrorists resulted in knowledge to fight near-peer adversaries.

Lessons learned in combating terrorist organizations have proved valuable to tailoring national defense techniques to use against #cyber attacks from near-peer adversaries, including China and Russia.

« It's easy to see how the scale of the challenge has increased over that time from non-nation-state actors to nation-state adversaries, and how we're going to prosecute our operations in competition, crisis and, if necessary, conflict in the future » ( Gen. Paul M. Nakasone )

Recent experience demonstrates that the threats to data and networks has changed dramatically in scope, scale and sophistication.

« Think about the past 150 days :

• We've seen supply chain attacks.
• We've seen zero-day vulnerabilities.
• We've seen #ransomware #malware »

Technology is key to #cybersecurity.

« We have a lot of work to do, but we have good partnerships. » ( Gen. Paul M. Nakasone )

https://www.afcea.org/content/past-can-profit-cyber-planning #terrorism