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Cybercrime, Cyber Warfare, and Government

Attitudes Towards Cybersecurity

By Avishai Avivi, CISO, SafeBreach

The face of cybersecurity is evolving. Cybercrime and its implications have grown into an inescapable
fact of our daily lives, affecting everyone from the general consumer to Fortune 500 corporations.
Cyberattacks have even begun to creep into the military sphere, with the threat of all-out cyber warfare
looming large over conflicts across the globe.

As a result, government attitudes towards cybersecurity have undergone a dramatic change. 2022 saw
governments around the world creating—or at least more heavily debating — cybersecurity regulations
to help secure enterprises and organizations from evolving cyber threats. The UK, for example, passed
the Telecommunications Security Act, which implemented tougher security standards on Internet service
providers (ISPs) to minimize breaches that could expose the private data of millions of consumers. And
for the first time, the US-based Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged
enterprises to choose a more proactive approach to defend themselves against cyberattacks,

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