# Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check

DevFeed: [Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cyber-security-a-pre-war-reality-check-36332.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/>)

Published: 2024-05-14T18:48:26Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Cybercrime](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybercrime.md>)

Tags: [autonomy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomy.md>), [conference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conference.md>), [cyber](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cyber.md>), [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [presentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/presentation.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [speech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speech.md>)

## AI overview

A lightly edited transcript of a presentation arguing that cybersecurity should be understood not only as protecting secrets and systems from hackers or ransomware, but also in the context of war and broader societal security risks. The speaker calls for a more realistic assessment of the current security environment.

## Source excerpt

This is a lightly edited transcript of my presentation today at the ACCSS/NCSC/Surf seminar 'Cyber Security and Society'. I want to thank the organizers for inviting me to their conference & giving me a great opportunity to talk about something I worry about a lot. Here are the original slides with notes, which may be useful to view together with the text below. In the notes there are also additional URLs that back up the claims I make in what follows.