Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for physical military strikes

interview Warfare has become a joint cyber-kinetic endeavor, with nations using cyber operations to scope out targets before launching missiles. And private companies, including shipping, transportation, and electronics manufacturers, are getting caught in the crossfire, according to Amazon.

This represents a "new operational model that's neither traditional cyber attack nor conventional warfare," Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt told The Register. "The targeting data collected through cyber means flows directly into kinetic decision making."

It also requires companies to take a different approach to security and risk management.

"Organizations that historically didn't consider themselves targets for nation-state actors - like a shipping company - may now be targeted simply because they have access to valuable intelligence, like surveillance cameras or industrial control systems or location data," Schmidt said.

"Moreover, physical and digital security can no longer be treated as separate domains with separate teams and approaches who don't share ...