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How ready is Brazil for cyberwarfare?
After Iran declared that a missile attack on a U.S. base in Iraq had “concluded proportionate measures” in response to the assassination of its top military official, experts alerted that the threats of cyberwarfare have been amplified. Philip Ingram, a former colonel in British military intelligence, told Forbes that “cyber will almost certainly play a part in the wider response that Iran will unleash on the U.S. and its allies.”
So, we ask: as one of the countries most aligned with Donald Trump’s U.S., is Brazil ready to deal with cyberwarfare?
Why it matters. Cyberattacks can cause more damage than traditional warfare without direct casualties. In 2012, Iran launched its most famous cyberattack against oil giant Saudi Aramco, forcing the company to go offline for months and rebuild its IT infrastructure from scratch—which cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Public administrations across the world are notoriously unprepared to deal with this. Last...