Russia and a host of other bad actors are active in Ukrainian cyberspace in everything from intelligence gathering to criminal pursuits, according to National Security Agency (NSA) Director of Cybersecurity Rob Joyce.
Yet the United States employs a wide range of tactics to identify and eliminate these cyber threats, he said.
Joyce discussed the function of the agency and the cyberwar in Ukraine at a forum on April 11 hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Bad Actors
Nation-states often use proxies in conducting cyber attacks, said Joyce, so it’s not always easy to tell who the true enemy is….