Lawfare Daily: Can Chinese Cyber Operations Be Deterred, with Dakota Cary
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Dakota Cary, Strategic Advisory Consultant at SentinelOne, joins Lawfare Senior Editor Eugenia Lostri, to discuss his article on U.S. attempts to deter Chinese hacking group Volt Typhoon. They talk about why Volt Typhoon won’t stop its intrusions against critical infrastructure, whether other hacking groups can be deterred, and where we should focus our attention to counter malicious activity.
Materials discussed during the episode:
- "Exploring Chinese Thinking on Deterrence in the Not-So-New Space and Cyber Domains," by Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
- Final Report of the Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Cyber Deterrence, February 2017
- The Atlantic Council report, "Adapting US strategy to account for China’s transformation into a peer nuclear power," by David O. Shullman, John K. Culver, Kitsch Liao, and Samantha Wong
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| 1:05.9 | But the idea that we could ask some of these organizations that are victims of Voltaifoon to |
| 1:12.1 | implement a deterrence by denial strategy is so far from possible that I can't consider it |
| 1:19.0 | within the next decade based on the maturity of some of these organizations and what we're |
| 1:22.8 | asking victims to stand up against. |
| 1:26.1 | It's a military with tens of thousands of people who kind of dedicated |
| 1:29.2 | this issue. It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Eugenia L'Hourri, senior editor at Lawfare, with Dakota |
| 1:35.9 | Carrie, Strategic Advisory Consultant at Sentinel One. Where in conflict, where in escalation |
| 1:43.4 | ladders, do we think that China would go, okay, now is the time to attack civilian critical infrastructure in the United States? |
| 1:52.0 | I think that's a really hard question to ask. And if I could say anything to U.S. policymakers, it would be focus your analytical efforts on determining where in that crisis, |
| 2:02.6 | China makes that decision. |
| 2:04.6 | Today, we're talking about whether China's hacking groups can be deterred. |
| 2:09.6 | So, Dakota, a few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that hackers linked to the Chinese |
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