The Ukraine Crisis – The Overspill from Cyber Warfare Threatens Us All

Over the past few weeks, the global media has been alerting us all to the prospect of aggressive action by Russia in Ukraine. The US has warned of imminent acts of provocation to create a pretext to invade Ukraine, and today the UK has started to withdraw embassy staff.

Conflict is no longer restricted to the physical world. We might think we are a safe distance away from the front line, but modern warfare does not care about international borders.

The last time Russia took aggressive action against Ukraine, companies across the world found themselves victim of an attack that got out of control. Russia was named by several intelligence agencies as having injected the NotPetya encrypting malware through a Ukrainian tax preparation software in 2017 to target Ukrainian assets. The situation eventually spiralled to infect thousands of businesses across the world, causing serious damage.

The situation could be more serious this time. The risk of damage to companies in the Channel Islands and UK from a Russian cyber attack increases further when sides are taken, with the US, UK and other allied nations likely to take up at least some degree of involvement. The British Government for example, plans to invest £5 billion in retaliatory cyber attacks, creating their very own “Cyber Force” to target hostile states.

We need to learn from this, and we advise you to ensure you have appropriate controls in place to help protect yourself and if necessary to be able to recover if you are affected by an attack. These controls must be across people, operations and technology; it is impossible for technology alone to give the necessary protection.

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The Ukraine Crisis – The Overspill from Cyber Warfare Threatens Us All