NSA?s top policy advisor: It?s time to start putting teeth in cyber deterrence

Nakasone and other officials in the intelligence community and US Cyber Command have warned that the US has to start inflicting a larger cost on state actors using cyberattacks for espionage and to create economic and political disruption.Joyce expressed the pride the NSA's workforce took in "delivering a midterm election that was free of malfeasance and interference"—an effort that spanned multiple agencies and reportedly included US Cyber Command efforts to target and take offline individuals associated with Russian disinformation campaigns on social media. “So they’re launching unconstrained operations against us," Joyce said at the AFCEA event, "and often, the responses come, if ever, after the costs [of those attacks] are already realized.”Joyce also warned that "cyberspace superiority," if it was something that could actually be achieved, is "probably fleeting" because of changes in technology, the nature of networks, and the ability of adversaries to observe, understand, and respond to the tools, techniques, and practices used against them.You must login or create an account to comment.Join the Ars Orbital Transmission mailing list to get weekly updates delivered to your inbox.