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Cyber

Offensive Cyber Capabilities Mounting While Deterrence, Resources Lag, Mandia Warns

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 15th, 2018

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Offensive Cyber Capabilities Mounting While Deterrence, Resources Lag, Mandia Warns

Kevin Mandia, CEO of MFireEye. Photo: FireEye

The trend among nations is to increase their offensive cyber security capabilities yet there remains inadequate deterrence effects and a lack of security resources to combat cyber threats, the head of the cyber security company FireEye [FEYE] says in a new report by the company that makes predictions for security in 2019.“In my travels, I have the privilege of meeting with government officials from around the globe, and in nearly every conversation I inevitably get the same question within the…

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