From the Washington Post
By Derek Hawkins
The White House insists that it’s mounting a robust response to digital offensives against election systems and other critical infrastructure. We asked The Network, a panel of more than 100 cybersecurity leaders from government, academia and the private sector, to share their opinions in our ongoing, informal survey...
Our survey revealed broad doubts among experts about the country's deterrence strategy, after President Trump chose not to back the U.S. intelligence community's conclusions that Moscow directed the cyberattacks aimed at disrupting the 2016 presidential election at a July press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin...
“Deterrence means stopping someone from doing what they would otherwise do by threatening a retaliation that is both credible and potent,” said Steve Weber, director of the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity at the University of California at Berkeley. “I can’t find, within the Trump administration's policies and actions, signals of a clear deterrent that meets either of those thresholds. If the administration believes differently, then their deterrence policy is clearly failing.”
Steve Weber is a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information and faculty director of Berkeley’s Center for Long Term Cybersecurity.
