The fact that a purportedly nation-state actor ( likely Russia) was able to compromise a third party (SolarWinds) to gain access to an as-yet-unknown number of US government networks and exfiltrate data is a significant espionage achievement. Is a failure of these strategies to blame? The answer (like all things political) is complicated.įirst off, it’s important to establish what this hack was. Though the scope of this hack is still being determined, such an extraordinary breach begs a fairly obvious question: Is US cyber strategy working? The US has historically relied on, first, a deterrence strategy and, more recently, the idea of “ defend forward” to prevent and respond to malicious behavior in cyberspace. Jacquelyn Schneider is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University, a non-resident fellow at the Naval War College’s Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute, and an affiliate of Stanford’s Center for International Security and Arms Control. Erica Borghard is a Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and an Associate Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.
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