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JUNE 27, 2017 13:27
Israeli MK Yair Lapid: Intel agencies should form task force to defend elections.
Cyber hacking (illustrative). (photo credit:INGIMAGE)
Cyber attackers “can expect real world surprises” if they go after Israel, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Nadav Argaman told a Tel Aviv University cyber conference on Tuesday.
In his first cyber speech since taking over the elite Israeli security agency in May 2016, Argaman said “our defense does not recognize any borders."
"We follow threats everywhere," he said, adding "We connect the cyber and the physical world.”
The head of Israel's internal intelligence service said, “we do not just wait to get hacked. We go aggressively after hackers to get them before they attack.”
He added that the security agency had “used cyber intelligence to stop many real world attacks,” including identifying 2,000 potential lone wolf threats in 2016.
Responses to these potential threats could include a combination of Shin Bet arrests, arrests by the Palestinian Authority or other forms of warnings to persons with online indications viewed by the agency as flags for potential lone wolf attacker.
In March, Argaman said that the Shin Bet’s cyber efforts had led to 402 arrests of potential lone wolf attackers.
Moreover, the agency has stopped dozens of serious cyber attacks.
He surveyed that throughout the world, “we have recently seen cyber attacks on infrastructure, hacking of cars and…stealing sensitive classified information.”
Part of what makes the cyber threat so dangerous is that cyber attacks are “faster than most terror attacks” and attackers can also quickly strike again if their first attempt is thwarted.
He also described “the asymmetry between the ease of the attacker to cause trouble” and the investment that defenders must utilize to thwart attacks.
Further, he noted that many states are using non-state actors and unaffiliated surrogates to cause major cyber damage.
Cyber defense “requires unprecedented cooperation between the Shin Bet, the IDF, the Mossad” and with “foreign intelligence agencies, the private sector and academia,” he said.
Argaman reflected that the Shin Bet is “in the midst of a revolution, changing its technology department into a combined cyber-technology department.”
He announced that “one-quarter of the Shin Bet is now [comprised of] technologists. We are getting the best hackers, and competing” with the private sector for them.
Also speaking at the event, Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid called for a new task force of the Shin Bet, IDF and the Mossad to focus specifically on defending future Israeli elections.
He said the task force should issue a report to President Reuvin Rivlin, since he is unaffiliated with political parties.
Lapid said this was necessary after the US and French elections were hacked and with expectations that the next German election will be hacked.
The Yesh Atid chairman said, “what a plus it would be for the enemy to decide” who will be Israel’s prime minister.
He also warned about fake news manipulation of elections. He asserted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had used fake news in the last election when he sent out a message that droves of Arabs were being bused to the voting booths, and said that the impact of a foreign government using such tactics would be far worse.
He said, “it is easier to hack newspapers or television stations than the Pentagon or the Mossad,” but that this can also do major damage.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Sh...ses-if-cyber-attackers-go-after-Israel-498049
JUNE 27, 2017 13:27
Israeli MK Yair Lapid: Intel agencies should form task force to defend elections.
Cyber hacking (illustrative). (photo credit:INGIMAGE)
Cyber attackers “can expect real world surprises” if they go after Israel, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Nadav Argaman told a Tel Aviv University cyber conference on Tuesday.
In his first cyber speech since taking over the elite Israeli security agency in May 2016, Argaman said “our defense does not recognize any borders."
"We follow threats everywhere," he said, adding "We connect the cyber and the physical world.”
The head of Israel's internal intelligence service said, “we do not just wait to get hacked. We go aggressively after hackers to get them before they attack.”
He added that the security agency had “used cyber intelligence to stop many real world attacks,” including identifying 2,000 potential lone wolf threats in 2016.
Responses to these potential threats could include a combination of Shin Bet arrests, arrests by the Palestinian Authority or other forms of warnings to persons with online indications viewed by the agency as flags for potential lone wolf attacker.
In March, Argaman said that the Shin Bet’s cyber efforts had led to 402 arrests of potential lone wolf attackers.
Moreover, the agency has stopped dozens of serious cyber attacks.
He surveyed that throughout the world, “we have recently seen cyber attacks on infrastructure, hacking of cars and…stealing sensitive classified information.”
Part of what makes the cyber threat so dangerous is that cyber attacks are “faster than most terror attacks” and attackers can also quickly strike again if their first attempt is thwarted.
He also described “the asymmetry between the ease of the attacker to cause trouble” and the investment that defenders must utilize to thwart attacks.
Further, he noted that many states are using non-state actors and unaffiliated surrogates to cause major cyber damage.
Cyber defense “requires unprecedented cooperation between the Shin Bet, the IDF, the Mossad” and with “foreign intelligence agencies, the private sector and academia,” he said.
Argaman reflected that the Shin Bet is “in the midst of a revolution, changing its technology department into a combined cyber-technology department.”
He announced that “one-quarter of the Shin Bet is now [comprised of] technologists. We are getting the best hackers, and competing” with the private sector for them.
Also speaking at the event, Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid called for a new task force of the Shin Bet, IDF and the Mossad to focus specifically on defending future Israeli elections.
He said the task force should issue a report to President Reuvin Rivlin, since he is unaffiliated with political parties.
Lapid said this was necessary after the US and French elections were hacked and with expectations that the next German election will be hacked.
The Yesh Atid chairman said, “what a plus it would be for the enemy to decide” who will be Israel’s prime minister.
He also warned about fake news manipulation of elections. He asserted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had used fake news in the last election when he sent out a message that droves of Arabs were being bused to the voting booths, and said that the impact of a foreign government using such tactics would be far worse.
He said, “it is easier to hack newspapers or television stations than the Pentagon or the Mossad,” but that this can also do major damage.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Sh...ses-if-cyber-attackers-go-after-Israel-498049
