Ali Menon

We really need technical indicators.

That's what we're looking for here.

And unfortunately, that could take weeks to months depending on how the recovery process goes.

It's ultimately the decision of the cybersecurity team that is working with Stryker to come out with that information.

And that process typically does take weeks or even months.

How much should industries, institutions, individuals be worrying about the Iranian threat right now?

They should actively be preparing their systems and they should be doing that whether they are large enterprises or even smaller companies.

One of the things that we've seen over the past several years is that many of these attackers will target smaller companies that have access to larger companies as part of their customer base and use that as their vehicle to get into some of these larger companies.

So it's something that everyone needs to be thinking about right now.

Absolutely.

One of the things that we've seen and one of the things that I saw as I was researching and writing my book, Code War, is that at the end of the day, during military and wartime scenarios, that's when cyber attacks are at their highest and especially most effective.

And so most organizations are going to be investing more in cybersecurity and should.

And we had previously seen that there was a bit of a lull before this where they were limiting some of their investment in cybersecurity.

I absolutely expect that to change and more investment to take place in the cybersecurity sector.

This has been such an evolving situation, as with most things related to AI.

But yes, we are seeing that attackers, especially nation state attackers, are using AI in very effective ways in their cyber operations, especially offensively.

So they're trying to automate as many aspects of the attack as possible, which is going to make it much more difficult to understand exactly who is targeting you, why they're targeting you.

and to prevent these types of attacks in the future.

They are largely not creating net new zero days and kind of net new attacks, but what they are doing is increasing the speed of delivery of some of the attacks that they had been perpetrating before and reducing the human load that they need and the human resources that they need to execute on those attacks.

Much of what Iran is doing right now is pre-positioning and identifying the targets that they need to be sitting in, be prepared to execute an attack when they want to.