Backbone is everything, don’t be owned by your infrastructure: Lessons from Ukraine for America

After weeks and months of saber-rattling, Russia has brutally invaded Ukraine. Bullying autocracies are reaching back and executing old playbooks — in this instance exceptionally audaciously — and around the globe they will be looking to see how allied democracies react and respond to Russia’s military aggression. For both attacker and defender, cyber domain will figure prominently. Indeed, it already has. Consider “intelligence preparation of the battlefield,” or IPB. It’s what military professionals do to scope the lay of the …

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