The Russian Invasion, Cyber War, And Global Supply Chains

The Russian Invasion, Cyber War, And Global Supply Chains

A close-up on an abstract design of a display, which is warning about a cyber attack. Multiple rows ... [+] of hexadecimal code are interrupted by red glowing warnings and single character exclamation marks. The image can represent a variety of threats in the digital world: data theft, data leak, security breach, intrusion, etc... When Russia invaded Ukraine, I knew there would be impacts on global supply chains. But supply chain impacts like the rising cost of gas, or the inability of a train to cross Siberia to bring goods from China to Europe, or the increased congestion this would cause at China ports, was not the supply chain impact I feared most. What I most feared was cyberwar. I feared this because I'd been reading Nicole Perlroth's book, They Tell Me This is How the World Ends. The book won the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award in 2021. Ms. Perlroth covers cybersecurity and digital espionage for The New York Times. She has covered Russian hacks of nuclear plants, airports, and elections; North Korea's cyberattacks against movie studios, banks and hospitals; Iranian attacks on oil companies, banks and the Trump campaign; and hundreds of Chinese cyberattacks