The war in Ukraine has affected governments, enterprises, and people globally. This series of posts. starting with “This Means War”, listed the effect this has had on cybersecurity and space launch/satellite efforts of major enterprises.
The level of official tolerance for attacks on governmental (including military and space assets), infrastructure (including health care and education), utilities (energy, water, pollution, transportation), and large-scale enterprises (financial, food, entertainment) is not infinite.
The ambiguity and uncertainty of policy is currently seen as beneficial by nation states. The advance of technologies and practice confounds traditional concepts of combatants, responsibility for actions, and consequences/accountability. Key cultural concepts challenged include the rules of war, permissible actions by military personnel, zones of conflict (space, deep ocean), and intergovernmental standards of conduct (attacks by private parties on other governments).
Condemnations and loud voices in civil society, international forums, and transnational enterprises create additional confusion and lack of clarity echoed in social/mass media, investments by enterprises, and priorities of attention from governments. Investments in physical and cyber protection by governments, enterprises, and individuals are always without return-on-investment in the classic economists’ views.
Capacity and capabilities in cyber defense create additional friction to transactions between all parties. A key result is that these costs and ambiguities will continue to increase as the complexity of interactions between parties, technologies, and venues increase. “War is hell” not to mention expensive and confusing.
If you’d like to read the series from the beginning you can find the first post here – www.ekalore.com/post/this-means-war
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