Challenges of Cyber Threat to Aerospace, Defence, and Infrastructure Sectors

Cyber attacks on aerospace and defence industries, infrastructure and military sectors constitute the gravest national security threat. Nations will need to be proactive in developing cyber security strategies. Cyber threats from Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups in association with adversary nation state/states are driven by the following objectives:

-Steal intellectual property to advance domestic aerospace and defense capabilities, develop countermeasures, and produce technologies for sale on the global arms market.

-Collect intelligence with which to monitor, and possibly infiltrate and subvert other nations’ defense systems and capabilities.

These challenges are discussed in this event.