Advanced cyber capabilities identified Russian activity on Ukrainian infrastructure long before the attack, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said. Speaking at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, he also said that these signals have helped the Ukrainian government significantly.
“So what happened, for example in the Ukrainian case, we were able, thanks to our cyber capability, thanks to the trillions of signals that we see long before, quite frankly, the attack started, the activity Russian on Ukrainian critical infrastructure,” said Microsoft’s CEO.
“And we were able to work then with the Ukrainian government to really effectively evacuate them into our cloud and protect them,” he added.
“…because our position is that we will always be there for any of our partners in their defense. And so we will use both our security products, as well as our security signal, to make sure that we protect any organization that is attacked and publish all this information so that it can be widely shared,” he added.
Nadella said cyber is a place where multiple stakeholders can come together to improve the cyber readiness of all of our organizations.
“I think it’s going to be very, very important. It’s between governments and private organizations and between private organizations around the world,” he said.
Asked about the key findings from Ukraine’s analysis, Nadella said, “The key findings were that you have multiple cyber actors, in this case state-sponsored, attacking critical infrastructure that can completely jeopardize the functioning of a government or society in general.” Also, the weakest link can be exploited and then hit hard on everything else and that’s a problem with the connected world, he said. warned.
“There is no isolated system. So a weak link. That’s why even in the United States we care so much about every municipality, every state has to be protected, because otherwise you can start with an attack in a small place and it can spread easily,” he said.
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