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the New Domain of Warfare
19 May 2022 News


MICROSOFT PRESIDENT: CYBER SPACE HAS BECOME THE NEW DOMAIN OF WARFARE

JAMES COKER REPORTER, INFOSECURITY MAGAZINE

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The conflict in Ukraine has shown that warfare has entered its “fourth plane” –
cyber space, according to Microsoft’s President Brad Smith, speaking
during Microsoft Envision in London, UK, today.

He argued that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks a significant shift in how
warfare is conducted. This follows previous eras, in which land, sea, and air
were prominent arenas. Smith noted that we are approaching the three-month point
of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, “the world’s first major hybrid war.”

Smith pointed out this is a phenomenon Microsoft has already considered. For
example, in calling for a Digital Geneva Convention to “obligate governments to
protect civilians in times of peace as well as war. It also helped set up
the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, which involves 150 companies from 29 countries
around the world. This “brought us together to think about the principles for
which we would stand as we saw a proliferation of weapons moving into cyber
space.”

However, he expressed surprise that he would be discussing these principles in
the context of a “significant, major war” so soon after. 

Smith then set out three major tech roles Microsoft has focused on concerning
the Russia-Ukraine conflict:


SUSTAINING A GOVERNMENT

He highlighted that the UK government had to move its communications underground
in World War Two. “Technology changed where communication needed to live,” he
stated. Something similar has happened in respect of the Ukrainian government,
except this time, “communications have moved to the cloud.”

Smith said that even one week before the invasion began, the Ukrainian
government ran entirely on-premise. It realized this was dangerous, and
Microsoft helped the government very quickly move to the cloud, in addition to
other parts of the country’s economy. “We recognized that we needed in this case
not just to move their data and infrastructure to the cloud, but in some
instances to move it to the cloud outside Ukraine.” He added: “The best way to
protect a country in time of war is to make sure its continuity by dispersing
its digital assets.”


DEFENDING A NATION

Smith emphasized that the first shots of the war were not fired on February 24,
when the invasion began, but before then, “where the first “shells” were
actually fired in cyber space.” The first weapon was malware called FoxBlade,
which simultaneously attacked more than 300 targets across the Ukrainian
government and critical industries. This attack showed that in warfare,
“distances have shrunk, and speeds accelerated.” He added that “cyber weapons
today can go halfway around the world at the speed of light – far faster than
any hypersonic weapon.”

> “Cyber weapons today can go halfway around the world at the speed of light –
> far faster than any hypersonic weapon.”

Microsoft threat intelligence personnel are at the frontline of these threats,
stated Smith. They have observed that Russian cyber-attacks have been
“incredibly sophisticated,” delivered in a very coordinated way from seven
different units in three different parts of the Russian government. Unlike
the NotPetya attacks in 2017, which spilled over to organizations worldwide,
these are “precisely targeted,” designed to penetrate a domain and only affect
computers within that domain.

He noted that the nature of cyber-attacks evolved from the start of the conflict
when techniques like DDoS and website defacement were prevalent. As the war
continued, Russia used a combination of cyber and kinetic attacks. For example,
in early March, in the space of a couple of days, Russia went from taking down a
network in a nuclear powerplant to attacking that powerplant. “We’re seeing in
real-time the evolution of this hybrid war,” Smith explained.

This trend demonstrates the importance of “rapid defense.” Smith said Microsoft
has worked to quickly send information about attacks they see “to the people who
can stop them.” This first line of defense is often ordinary people working in a
business, like network administrators or CIOs. “We have to find them any way we
can,” he outlined.

In the same way that radar enabled Britain to quickly respond to enemy bombers
during World War Two, Smith commented that detection and security are critical
to defending Ukraine’s government and critical infrastructure from
cyber-attacks.

Smith also highlighted the role of disinformation in the conflict, which “is
part of an integrated operation that is being done to support Russian military
aims in Ukraine on a global basis.” Therefore, “we are going to need to develop
the offensive capabilities to combat this kind of cyber-attack in the same way
that we combat others.”


PROTECTING PEOPLE

The role of protecting innocent civilians at this time “is the most fundamental
for all of us,” said Smith. Most fundamentally, this involves ensuring there is
accountability for war crimes contraventions during the war, such as shelling
hospitals. Tech has a huge role in gathering the evidence required to prosecute
perpetrators, particularly in “collecting, preserving and analyzing data related
to war crimes investigations.”

He revealed that using Satellite imagery, Microsoft had developed an AI
algorithm “that can identify each day hospital, school and water tower being
attacked, damaged or destroyed.”

Smith added that it is important “to use all of the tools that we have to try to
protect people, and it’s important to ensure that we create the foundation to do
what was done after World War Two at Nuremberg.”

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