State of the Net 2018

During a recent Homeland Security Committee hearing Chairman Ron Johnson asked FBI Director Christopher Wray to describe a sort wizards' brew” of cyber security threats. Wray painted a picture of "a blurring between different kinds of threats," from nation state actors working with hackers-for-hire enlisting troll farms and autonomous bots. That’s all on top of increases in traditional economic cyber schemes from ransomware to Equifax, and everything in between. The motivations for the myriad high profile hacks recently are mostly varied and in some cases unknown. Worse, the tools and capabilities used in these attacks are vastly more sophisticated, some of which are NSA tools released into the wild. And soon some techniques may take the form of artificial intelligence attacks. The problem has become so complex and urgent that Microsoft President Brad Smith has called for a “Digital Geneva Convention” to start grapple with these issues. Our expert panel will explore dig deep into the Wizards' Brew to better illuminate the new threat matrices and what’s being done to counter them.