Cyber security ... new armies to confront the digital "terrorism"

Parallel to the armies fighting on the ground, many countries around the world began building their armies of electronic attacks,

This is part of the efforts to try to repel it through elements specialized in cybersecurity.

During the late Wednesday, the White House asked the largest technology and financial institutions and some infrastructure companies to make more efforts to overcome the increasing threat posed by electronic attacks on the American economy.

One of the largest cyber attacks on the United States this year, an attack by the "Collonial Payplain" company, which was exposed to a cyber attack, led it to suspend all fuel transfer activities to all regions in the north and southeastern United States.

And in May, Collonial Payplain, which provides about 45% of the fuel consumed on the eastern coast, last May, arrested its operations after it revealed a cyberi attack, which said it affected some of its systems.

Biden: Cyber security is a priority

Yesterday, Biden told the heads of companies: "The federal government cannot face this challenge on its own ... We have a lot of work that we must do together," so that cybersecurity today turns into one of the priorities of the Biden strategic administration.

Among the most prominent companies that attended the meeting are Amazon, Andy Jaci, Apple, Microsoft, and Alabet, the parent company of Google, and IBM, and government companies affiliated with the Ministry of Justice.

The last months have witnessed a wave of high -level ransom attack attacks, prompting the issuance of an executive order by Biden on cybersecurity in May, when government contractors were forced to build "low -confident confidence" safety in all programs.

The meeting with Biden was followed by the announcement of the American information technology companies, its pledge to spend billions of dollars to cybersecurity.

New armies

American research has proven that the nature of the war itself has changed, causing a new digital arms race that challenges the basics of societies.

The most advanced examples of countries that use cyber weapons for offensive purposes;Pandora's box or the curse box through which the hackers could access the systems to be controlled.

Every year, the Director of the US National Intelligence issues a general evaluation of the threat coming from different countries of the world, as in the 2007 report, there was no one word on electronic threats.

In 2009, it appeared at the bottom of the list, after drug smuggling in West Africa;However, since 2013, electronic threats have escalated to become one of the largest national security threats facing the United States.

Moreover, in 2011 the United States government announced that electronic attacks constitute a act of war that could spark a traditional military retaliation by the American armed forces.

Cyber weapons have also become attractive to limited resources, due to their unequal capabilities;A revolution has been created in the concept of the entire war, how it is managed, what are the rules, and who is your enemy.

On July 4, 2009, Independence Day in the United States, it struck a series of American and South Korean governments attacks, news media and financial sites.

The attacks lasted for several days and affected the White House websites, the Pentagon, the New York Stock Exchange, the Washington Post, NASDAC and Amazon, as well as the Blue House in South Korea (President's Office), and the Ministry of Defense.

According to different estimates at the time, it has been "kidnapped" or up to 166,000 computers, and targeted about 39 specific websites in both countries.

Although the 2009 attacks were uncomplicated in terms of the technologies used, and were quickly addressed, this was just the beginning of electronic operations and its source North Korea.