In a historic first, Estonia is sending cyber defense advisors to Georgia. Estonia has had the most direct experience countering attacks from Putin's Russia and after the attacks of May 7, 2007 established a NATO Cyber Defense Centre in their capital city of Tallinn.
According to one report:
Estonia will send to Georgia two specialists in information security from the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Estonia, Foreign Ministry representatives told the Baltic News Service.
So, two experts, almost certainly part of a NATO Centre have rushed to a NATO-wannabe country that is being pummeled by the Russian military and undergoing cyber attacks. In a conflict that could easily escalate (one excited editor of a military web site raises the specter of global conflagration as sparked by the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand) you would think that Estonia would tread lightly.
But hey, for Russia to respond in any way to cyber defense experts being sent to Georgia it would have to acknowledge that it was directly supportive of, if not responsible for, the current attacks against Georgia’s cyber assets. Whether or not Russia reacts on the diplomatic front this cyber war has the potential of escalating rapidly if Estonia gets involved.
UPDATE: Georgia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs website is now hosted on Estonian assets. I love Estonia.
Richard Stiennon is a security industry analyst. He is currently consulting, speaking and writing on all manner of security topics for IT-Harvest, the IT research firm he founded to cover the security space. He was most recently chief marketing officer for Fortinet. He has served stints at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Gartner, and Webroot Software.
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Well, thanks for the post - i think u was first one :)
Just want to thank for the post, i was noticing IP change yesterday but did not find any news about it. Do you have any knowledge if other gov websites will also be transfered soon?
Russians in some of the forums was taking notice of this IP change also, lets see the outcome :)
Go Estonia!
Go Estonia!
Estonia and NATO
Kudos to Estonia for sending those Cyber Security Advisors to Georgia, and Kudos to Google for hosting Georgian Websites on their domains. Now if only we could get Germany and France to get a move on and send in some people we might see something good here. As all those protesters on the White House front lawn keep chanting, "No Blood for Oil!" Who knew it would actually be useful for once.
almost certainly part of a
these CERT experts are from National Informatics Centre body
http://www.ria.ee/28201
new war field
The area of war is moved to the cyber now. much better than killing a person to win
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cruix, programmer of fsbo Washington