Mandiant Executive Cautions Against Russia-Cyberattack Panic (1)

Fears of “scorched-earth” cyberattacks stemming from a standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine may be overblown, and could give undue influence to the Kremlin, according to a senior executive at cybersecurity firm Mandiant Inc.

Sandra Joyce, Mandiant’s executive vice president of global intelligence and a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force reserve, said that unfounded concerns about Russia’s cyber power threaten to hamper diplomacy.

“We’ve had a lot more death and destruction from real kinetic war than we’ve had from the cyber domain, and I think that people just need to slow down and realize that,” Joyce ...