“If we don’t act boldly, something really bad is going to happen,” said retired Air Force General Michael Hayden, a former director of central intelligence and ex-head of the Pentagon’s National Security Agency. “Then we’ll over-react.”
General Hayden spoke from a forum on cyber deterrence hosted by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. Hayden didn’t give any specifics regarding how the U.S. might “over-react” to a cyber attack. Michael Tiffany, Chief Architect at Recursion Ventures, also spoke. He described how he demonstrated before a group of U.S. intelligence experts how hackers can bring 90 percent of a major U.S. city’s vital systems down without anyone noticing.
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