Hacked by a teenager or foreign spy? FireEye CEO urges governments to attribute state cyber attacks
Attributing responsibility for a cyber attack is difficult, but important: the difference between being hacked by a teenager and being hacked by a foreign spy agency could be the difference between public acceptance and a hellish world of lawsuits, fines and shattered reputations.
ccording to FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, speaking at a FireEye roundtable event, it is time for governments and law enforcement agencies to take a leadership role in demystifying this world of attribution.
Mandia, who took over FireEye in June 2016 and has worked with the US government in attribution for some time, says that companies need their governments to “stand behind [them]” when a nation hacks them. Right now, he says that no government does so in a “consistent way”.
