Ex-NATO hacker: 'In the cyber world, there's no such thing as a ceasefire'

interview The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won't carry any weight in cyberspace, according to former NATO hacker Candan Bolukbas.

"In the cyber world, there's no such thing as a ceasefire," he told The Register.

If we see something in cyberspace that can disrupt us, we're going to attack it first, and we have that under US Cyber Command's mission

Bolukbas is chief technology officer and founder of Black Kite, a cyber-risk intelligence firm that assesses businesses' third-party supplier risks. His company also shares and receives threat intel with and from the US National Security Agency (NSA), as do other private security firms.

Prior to founding Black Kite in 2016, Bolukbas worked for NATO as a part of its counter cyberterrorism task force, helping member and partner countries harden their network defenses by ...