In the spring of 2021, America’s Colonial Pipeline – the 5,500-mile fuel superhighway, which supplies half the East Coast’s petrol and diesel – abruptly shut down for six days. The cause was a cyber-attack, launched by a Russian-based criminal gang. The stuff of nightmares for every board director.
President Putin’s war in Ukraine has included cyber-attacks on the country’s government and banking sites. Western intelligence has warned that more is likely to come, with Russian cyber actors potentially already pre-positioned in Ukrainian IT systems, collecting intelligence and preparing to launch disruptive activities.
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