Hackers, Russia, China: Cyber Battles & How We Win | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

The US has finally gotten serious about protecting itself from cyberattacks, says CISA's Jen Easterly.

The next decade will be a turning point in the global cyber arms race. And the stakes are very high.

If measured as a country's GDP, cyber crime would now be the world's third-largest economy after the US and China. And it only takes a single password — as Americans learned after the 2021 Colonial Pipeline attack — for cyber crime to cripple a company or humiliate a nation.

On GZERO World, Ian Bremmer speaks to Jen Easterly, director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, tasked with defending the country from all cyber threats — foreign and domestic.

America, she says, has finally gotten serious about protecting itself from cyberattacks. But the federal government still needs cooperation from the private sector, which operates 80% of the critical infrastructure that serves our daily basic needs.

Easterly also digs into how Russia is the urgent cyber threat, though China could do more damage in the long term -- and whether the US is prepared to defend itself from both adversaries.

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[flyonbyya]

We win by exerting soft power… not software !

[richardjones]

Agency started under Obama, continued and expanded under Trump …. Doing a great job stepping up, consolidating, cataloging and distributing timely threat information

[bsmithhammer]

Good interview. In regards to China, of course we need to remain vigilant, but I'm not very concerned at all about the possibility of China becoming 'technologically dominant in the next 10 years. In fact, for many reasons, I think we are going to see just the opposite happen. From a ticking population bomb to the many, many inputs that China is heavily reliant on to keep its largely artifical economy going, I just think there is far too much fragility there. Of coursem, that doesn't negate the possibility of China continuing to be a formidable concern when it comes to cyber, as well as espionage in general.