Christopher Krebs: Companies need ‘military-grade’ investments to defend against foreign government hackers

Christopher Krebs: Companies need ‘military-grade’ investments to defend against foreign government hackers: Last year was a “seminal year” for nation-state-backed cyberattacks from American adversaries, a top Department of Homeland Security official said Wednesday, adding that companies may need U.S. government support to cope with such advanced threats. “We’ve known for years that there are primarily four nation-state actors that are most active in the cybersecurity space, but push really came to shove” in 2017, Christopher Krebs said Wednesday, referring to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. American companies can handle most cyberthreats through their own security investments, but a “military-grade level of investment” is needed to cope with nation-state hackers, Krebs, DHS’s top infrastructure security official, said at a conference in Washington, D.C. Experts say it is very difficult for a company of any size to cope with advanced and well-resourced hackers, but DHS is trying to make the fight less lopsided by providing companies with threat intelligence and risk assessments. Further, basic practices like …

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