
After Russia failed early in its war against Ukraine to accomplish some strategic objectives through offensive cyberattacks, its turn to physical attacks against Ukrainian critical infrastructure demonstrates “the context of armed conflict dwarfs the cyber impacts,” a Defense Department official said this week. Protecting assets like data centers during an armed conflict is more than just cybersecurity, it is also “about the physical security of those data centers,” Mieke Eoyang, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Cyber Policy, said on…