The ongoing war in Ukraine represents an evolution in modern warfare, as Russia continues to conduct cyberattacks against Ukrainian infrastructure, government, and companies alongside conventional attacks. From the onset of the war, the Cyber Defensive Assistance Collaborative (CDAC) has been at the forefront of delivering cyber defense assistance (CDA) to Ukrainian organizations, contributing to Ukraine’s success …
Since the initial Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Cyber Defensive Assistance Collaborative (CDAC) has been working to enhance Ukrainian cyber defensive efforts, including threat intelligence to critical infrastructure and defense organizations. CDAC recognized challenges in receiving threat intelligence from different sources such as prioritizing, de-duplicating, and parsing through a large amount of information. Thus, since …
Heading into 2024, the Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC) is demonstrating support for the establishment of cyberspace funds and new authorities granted to the State Department under S.2043–a part of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. Greg Rattray, Executive Director of CDAC, represents the organization and partner companies’ support in the following letter. …
CDAC Supports and Endorses the Establishment of Cyberspace Funds Read More »
The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC), a CRDF Global Initiative, recently sent a delegation to the Annual Cycon Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, from May 28th – June 2nd. CDAC delegation members met with global like-minded governments and private sector partners to discuss the expansion of cyber defense assistance to Ukraine. Meetings proved to be productive, …
Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a watershed moment, and unique in that a major nation-state had engaged in coordinated, convergent digital and physical attacks in an effort to conquer a neighboring country. Leaders will draw lessons from this conflict for years, but one is already clear: the ability to deliver cyber …
By Dina Temple-Raston “Just weeks after Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, a representative from the cybersecurity firm Mandiant phoned executives at Naftogaz, Ukraine’s largest state-owned oil and natural gas company, with an unusual offer: Would Naftogaz be open to having Mandiant check their network for bad guys? Russian hackers have been trying to break …
CDAC Featured on “Click Here” Podcast Episode: “Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine” Read More »
Prior to the February Russian expanded military invasion of Ukraine, cyber attacks on Ukrainian public and private institutions accelerated in number and intensity. Two former U.S. government officials and leading experts on cyber security and Ukraine, Greg Rattray and Matthew Murray, had been working with CRDF Global to help Ukraine create the nation’s first national …
