NSA's Joyce outlines how U.S. can disrupt and deter foreign hacking

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https://www.cyberscoop.com/rob-joyce-nsa-disrupt-foreign-hacking/

By Sean Lyngaas
CYBERSCOOP
February 28, 2019

The United States will do more to disrupt the malicious cyber-activity that 
foreign adversaries are aggressively using to advance their interests, a 
National Security Agency official said Thursday.

"We have to impose costs in a visible way to start deterrence," said Rob Joyce, 
senior cybersecurity adviser at NSA. "We have to go out and try to make those 
operations less successful and harder to do."

Speaking to an industry association in Hanover, Maryland, Joyce cited the 2017 
WannaCry and NotPetya malware outbreaks -- and Russia's use of information 
operations in the 2016 U.S. election -- as examples of nation-states moving 
from "exploitation to disruption" to impose their will in cyberspace. 
Washington has blamed North Korea and Russia, respectively, for the devastating 
WannaCry and NotPetya attacks, which cost billions of dollars in economic 
damage.

Some foreign governments have less legal constraints on their activities in 
cyberspace than the U.S., Joyce told a local chapter of the Armed Forces 
Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).

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