Security News > 2023 > June > Russia-Ukraine war sending shockwaves into cyber-ecosystem
The war has been described as the first to deploy significant - if largely immeasurable - levels of cyber operations by the belligerent parties.
Despite the disparity in state size and military might, it's a contest in which both sides appear almost equally matched in terms of human and cyber resources; neither side, it seems, has established cyber dominance - yet.
As of July 2022, "The head of Ukraine's State Service of Special Communications & Information Protection has spoken of a group of some 270,000 volunteers who are self-coordinating their efforts, and who can decide, plan and execute strikes on the Russian cyber infrastructure without the Ukraine government getting involved."
It's an issue that since the outbreak of the Russo-Ukraine hostilities has loomed large in the cyber risk insurance market, where pay-outs for cyber damages claims are often contingent on attribution of the source of the attack.
Further, many policies exclude coverage of cyber damages if they're the result of acts of war.
"Even where a company does not have direct involvementwith the war they are thinking about how it might affect them - or their strategic partners - from a cyber security perspective somewhere along the line," says Fowler.