{"id":97471,"date":"2019-10-15T22:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/undeclared-wars-in-cyberspace-are-becoming-more-aggressive-and-automated"},"modified":"2019-10-15T22:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T05:02:52","slug":"undeclared-wars-in-cyberspace-are-becoming-more-aggressive-and-automated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/undeclared-wars-in-cyberspace-are-becoming-more-aggressive-and-automated","title":{"rendered":"Undeclared Wars in Cyberspace Are Becoming More Aggressive and Automated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/undeclared-wars-in-cyberspace-are-becoming-more-aggressive-and-automated2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess to the power grid that is obtained now could be used to shut something important down in the future when we are in a war,\u201d White noted. \u201cEspionage is part of the whole program. It is important to remember that cyber has just provided a new domain in which to conduct the types of activities we have been doing in the real world for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US is also beginning to pour more money into cybersecurity. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/BUDGET-2020-BUD\/pdf\/BUDGET-2020-BUD.pdf\">2020 fiscal budget<\/a> calls for spending $17.4 billion throughout the government on cyber-related activities, with the Department of Defense (DoD) alone earmarked for $9.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the growing emphasis on cybersecurity in the US and around the world, the demand for skilled security professionals is well outpacing the supply, with a projected shortfall of nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isc2.org\/-\/media\/ISC2\/Research\/2018-ISC2-Cybersecurity-Workforce-Study.ashx?la=en&amp;hash=4E09681D0FB51698D9BA6BF13EEABFA48BD17DB0\\h\">three million open or unfilled positions<\/a> according to the non-profit IT security organization (ISC)\u00b2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAccess to the power grid that is obtained now could be used to shut something important down in the future when we are in a war,\u201d White noted. \u201cEspionage is part of the whole program. It is important to remember that cyber has just provided a new domain in which to conduct the types of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}