Senator Mark Warner on a New Cyber Doctrine

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🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Last week, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia addressed a crowd at the Center for New American Security (CNAS), offering what he called a “New Doctrine for Cyberwarfare & Information Operations.” Sen. Warner currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In that role, he helps to oversee that committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. To combat the sort of information warfare and cyberattacks used in that election, as well as the more general and staggering cybersecurity threats posed to U.S. persons and entities, the senator lays out a detailed series of recommendations for this doctrine, emphasizing: establishing international cyber norms and rules; combatting disinformation and misinformation; hardening networks, weapons systems, and Internet of Things devices; realigning defense spending; and strong federal leadership.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:32.6	Obviously, more broadly, we need a coherent strategy for how to deal with the hybrid
0:38.6	approach of cyber and disinformation that is coming from our adversaries.
0:43.3	Well, let me be clear about what I'm not saying.
0:46.6	I am not advocating that the US mimicked the approach of Russia and China.
0:52.0	The idea that states have a sovereign right to control or censor information within their
0:58.0	borders.
0:59.0	Frankly, that is a vision that's incompatible with American values and our constitution.
1:04.4	What I am saying is that we need to confront the fact that our adversaries have an approach
1:10.8	that considers control of information an essential component of their overall defensive and
1:16.8	offensive strategies.
1:19.0	We have not only failed to recognize the situation over the last two decades, but we particularly
1:24.4	tended to downplay and minimize the dangers of information operations.
1:30.2	I'm Mikhail Afogal and this is the LawFair podcast December 15, 2018.
1:36.9	Last week, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia addressed a crowd at the Center for New American
1:41.6	Security, offering what he called a new cyber doctrine for cyber warfare and information
1:47.1	operations.
1:48.2	Senator Warner currently serves as the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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