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>> Bill Varner: And the worst thing is, we might not know until such an attack is well underway.
I t might not be the big explosive kinetic-type activity
that we think we would immediately recognize.
>> Marcus Sachs: The concept of a Pearl Harbor usually is painted in a,
I wasn't expecting this, sneak attack, you know, the airplanes came in at dawn type of thing.
Cyberspace is a little different.
We are constantly being attacked.
We are constantly being penetrated.
And so, many would say that our cyber Pearl Harbor moment is actually
in our past, we just don't recognize it.
We're still waiting for this big event and we're not paying attention
to everything that has all ready happened.
>> Rear Adm.
Elizabeth Hight: Most people equate Pearl Harbor with the big ***.
I mean there were bombs dropping.
There were people who were obviously hurt, injured and dying.
There was a lot of noise.
We've all seen the movies.
So when professionals use that reference, we think there's going
to be a great big loud *** somewhere.
But, that's not the way cyberspace works.
And so, if we think about it that way, everyone and their brother will say, oh, no, no,
there will never be a big Pearl Harbor.
But the consequences, as Bill has acknowledged, could be so severe
that we could have exactly the same kind of mayhem
if in fact our critical infrastructure is destroyed or even penetrated in some way.
We could have exactly the same kind of hysteria that they had a result of Pearl Harbor.
>> Marcus Sachs: Because a lot of what led up to Pearl Harbor, what actually allowed it
to happen, was the misinformation sharing, the stove-piping of information.
People knew what was going on.
We had intelligence, but there was no sharing.
And this is exactly what we see today is there is a lot of knowledge
of what is going on, but there's very little sharing.
And I think that's a lesson that we have got to learn from Pearl Harbor-type moments.
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