Iran's Cyberthreat

In May of last year, as the U.S. government deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln and B-52 strategic bombers to the Middle East, we predicted that Iran would continue to press its advantage and test American resolve. Since May, Iran has shot down a U.S. drone, launched a major missile attack against Saudi Aramco, killed an American contractor in a rocket attack in Iraq, and attacked the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, to name just a few. Iran's history of cyber activities suggests that it is likely to target key areas like financial services, energy, oil and gas, health care, and core federal systems, including the Department of Defense and its industrial base. [...]sharing can allow the detection of unknown threats by leveraging cross-domain knowledge and will allow smaller companies to leverage the capabilities, investment, and human capital of larger players, while allowing those companies access to the broader footprint of the many smaller players being targeted by attackers looking for less well-defended targets.