Asymmetrical Hybrid Warfare

Casey Fleming, CEO Of Blackops Partners and Advisor to The Top Leadership of Business, Government, The Military, The White House and Congress; The Co-Author Of SPECTRE– The Hybrid Warfare Exercise and Recipient of The Cyber-Security Excellence Awards Participate in Risk Roundup To Discuss – Asymmetrical Hybrid Warfare.

Asymmetrical Hybrid Warfare

The nature of warfare is clearly changing and evolving. Over the years, wars have gotten smaller, are generally not declared, and are even won without the need to fire a single shot or missile. This is understandably alarming everyone– individuals as well as entities across nations: its governments, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA).

There are clear and visible signs that technology is reshaping the way wars are fought in cyberspace, geospace, and space (CGS). In a world that is increasingly dependent on technology, as the nature of warfare evolves and becomes hi-tech, so do the dividing sovereignty lines blurring across cyberspace, geospace, and space.

Irrespective of cyberspace, geospace, and space today, wars are simply happening when individuals, groups, or nations/states, armed with advanced information, communication, and other powerful technologies, create the conditions for hybrid warfare to achieve their strategic objectives in CGS.

This vicious, technology-driven power struggle, raging on in cyberspace, geospace, and space, this new connected CGS battleground is full of unknowns, including major players, minor players, rules of war, and reasons for war. In these connected CGS battlefields, the war casualties have been quietly piling up. It seems everyone, individuals, and entities across NGIOA are being hit, and are at risk of being hit. No one is being spared.

As computer code, connected computers, the internet, and advances in cyberspace, geospace, and space technology fundamentally transform warfare, the new reality of connected asymmetric hybrid warfare is causing panic across nations’ decision makers. So, the question is how can any nation contain the threats posed by asymmetric hybrid CGS warfare?

Let us evaluate that further-

• Blurring boundaries between Cyberspace, Geospace, and Space
• Technology Evolution and Revolution
• The democratization of War Weapons
• Asymmetric Hybrid Warfare

When everything that is connected to the internet becomes a target and a war zone, who will we defend, what will we defend, and how will we defend?

Asymmetrical Hybrid Warfare

Historically, the implications of any technology revolution and evolution are often not understood at first. That was true of the tank, the machine gun, and the telephone over the years, and is still true today when we evaluate blockchain, machine learning, and CRISPR technology that changes the fundamentals of cyber weapons, nano-weapons, bio-weapons, and space weapons. It may take time for NGIOA decision-makers to realize that inserting new technologies in cyberspace, geospace, or space: be it something as simple as information, communication, and digitization technology to artificial intelligence, blockchain, or CRISPR technology; the new ways of doing things always create new inefficiencies, vulnerabilities, and risks.

Time is now to talk about Asymmetric Hybrid Warfare!

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About the Guest

T. Casey Fleming serves as Chief Executive Officer of BLACK OPS Partners Corporation, the leading intelligence, think tank, strategy, and cyber-security advisors to the senior leadership of the world’s largest organizations. Mr. Fleming is widely recognized as a top thought-leader, leading expert, and speaker on intelligence, strategy, national security, hybrid warfare, DarkNet, and cyber-security. He regularly advises top leadership of the business government, the military, The White House, and Congress. He is the co-author of SPECTRE, the breakthrough hybrid warfare exercise. The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recently named him Cyber-security Professional of the Year. Mr. Fleming led global organizations for IBM Corporation, Deloitte Consulting, and Good Technology. He served as founding managing director of IBM’s highly successful Cyber division, now IBM Security. Mr. Fleming received his Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University with Honors and has participated in executive programs with Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, and IBM Corporation.

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