Check Point announces a possible “cold cyber war”
The service provider said that by 2020 a digital conflict could be generated between several countries in the world due to the high tensions that have been generated
The cybersecurity provider Check Point warned of a possible cold war in 2020 between countries in the digital world due to the increase in international tension that will result in the increase of cyber attacks supported by countries against other governments, critical infrastructure and large Corporations.
Check Point presented in a statement its predictions in the field of cybersecurity for the next year 2020 detailing the main incidents and technical developments that will take place and impact on society and companies, as well as the security strategies that will help Governments and private organizations prevent these incidents from causing damage and disrupting their services.
The CEO and founder of Check Point, Gil Shwed, points out that “as society increasingly depends on continuous and uninterrupted connectivity, criminals and creators of threats to States and nations have more opportunities to influence the results of events politicians, or of causing disruptions and massive damages that endanger thousands of lives.”
Thus, he notes that the attacks are increasingly frequent, having blocked his ThreatCloud service last year almost 90,000 million attempts of attack a day, a figure that contrasts with the estimated amount of daily searches performed on Google, which is around 6,000 million according to company data.
Based on these data, the provider predicts that “there will be a new cold war”, but that it will take place in the digital world because the main western and eastern powers “increasingly separate their technologies and intelligence.”
As an example of this, they talk about the commercial war that currently exists between the United States and China that has caused the former to create a ‘blacklist’ of Chinese products that he considers dangerous for the country, as happened with Huawei that can no longer use products American technology for their products.
K. Tovar
Source: Sillicon
