Cyberattacks Against US Business, the ‘Perfect Asymmetric Weapon’

Geopolitical tensions across the globe expose US companies to as they are viewed as elements of US national power. According to experts speaking at Advisen’s Cyber Risk Insights conference in New York last week, these countries consider cyberattacks the “perfect asymmetric weapon.”

“In a sense being an American company does unfortunately carry a great risk from nation-state attacks because they [nation states] see the strength of the US economy underpinning the larger military and political power of the United States,” said Haris Shawl, Manager, PwC Cyber Threat Operations.

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Josh Bradford, Cyberattacks against US business, the ‘perfect asymmetric weapon’ (October 30, 2017), available with subscription at Advisen Cyber Front Page News.