China & Russia's Cyber Capability Externalization #shorts

Where does that leave us? Um the externalization of cyber capabilities by China and Russia are a functional and effective model uh that allow both state to enhance their reach and control the costs. Um and this system is really effective in authoritarian uh contexts because these governments they have uh limited domestic uh scrutiny. They can operate uh with minimal transparency and accountability. In our our democracies, that would be way more complex to uh fully outsource uh our capabilities to uh private companies or obviously there would be more scrutiny and way more uh problematic to resort to uh cyber criminals. uh um and in such environment attribution uh uh for uh cyber operation has limited uh deterrence value. So

yeah, they don't care if uh they uh we identify that this company um engage uh in uh cyber operation against uh western um uh companies. So even like those companies especially in China they have been identified but they're still running like this is not an issue in China to have been identified as um a companies operating malicious uh cyber operation against uh western targets. So this model works and it's probably going to continue to develop and we have now also other country that are developing this models.