Cyber Vigilante or Self Defense?
summary
Examines how private companies should respond to increasingly sophisticated attacks on critical cyber infrastructure, focusing on coordination with government during incidents and legal/ethical limits on self-help. Discusses whether retaliation or active countermeasures are permissible and how to distinguish acceptable passive defense from questionable offensive actions.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:17The basic problem
- 2:15The attackers are succeeding
- 3:10Washington is trying to improve things
- 4:32The government will play an increasing role
- 5:00Actions of increasing intensity
- 5:47Tracking
- 9:03Sack
- 10:17Cyber jacking
- 11:55Taking them out
- 12:46is this legal
- 13:30DOJ concerns
- 14:24No affirmative defense
- 14:38Council of Europe
- 15:01What about selfdefense
- 16:01Who is going to prosecute
- 16:57Downsides
- 19:48What are companies thinking
- 20:30Conclusion
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