The Cyber Defense Assistance: Imperative Lessons from Ukraine

| Written By Gregory Rattray, Geoff Brown, and Robert Taj Moore | Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a watershed moment. Governments, citizens, and companies faced a choice—they could support Ukraine in its fight to defend its independence or they could sit back while Russia destroyed the post-war order that has stood since 1945. On an unprecedented scale, a major nation-state had engaged in coordinated, convergent digital and physical attacks in an effort to conquer a neighboring country.

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CDAC Featured on “Click Here” Podcast Episode: “Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine”

They call themselves the Cyber Defense Assistance Collaboration (CDAC), and it is the brainchild of Greg Rattray, a former chief information security officer at JP Morgan Chase. For months, he has been helping build a kind of public-private partnership to combat destructive cyberattacks. This is the first time he’s speaking in depth about the initiative publicly.

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