"Since the Stuxnet worm - every device in the world is vulnerable to attack"

This is what the Chairman of the Israel Space Agency Major General (res.) Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel said yesterday at the Herzliya conference

As part of the session of the National Council for Research and Development of the Ministry of Science at the Herzliya conference on Israeli cyber innovation, the chairman of the Israel Space Agency Major General (Res.) Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel said yesterday (Monday): "Since the Stuxant incident in the centrifuges at the nuclear reactor in Iran, there are three truths that need to be Get rid of them and quickly: First, that cyber threats are only a threat to information - Stuxnet damaged physical machines and centrifuges in a nuclear reactor.
Second, computers are not only on the desk in the office and at home, it's also cell phones, traffic lights, power outages and more. Today almost every device is exposed. In addition, the pipeline for the attack is not limited to the Internet only - the centrifuge control facility in Iran was not connected to the network at all, not internally and certainly not to the global Internet, and yet it was attacked. This is possible starting with the purchased hardware and ending with a software update or the introduction of a virus using a USB flash drive."

The head of R&D that directs the development of military intelligence at Brigadier General Eitan Eshel said that as the boundaries of life and cyberspace become more blurred, we are more vulnerable to attacks. "We connect ourselves to knowledge and stand at the threshold of life in augmented reality: use of the virtual currency Bitcoin, use of XNUMXD printers to produce objects and dependence on data, a large part of which is on the cloud, turns our lives into a space for cyber warfare." Eshel emphasized that the attack tools are free on the network and large resources are not needed to carry out an attack.

Dr. Tal Steinherz, CTO, Chief Technologist at the National Cyber ​​Headquarters at the Ministry of Defense told about a development at Ben Gurion University where they are trying to develop a mechanical fuse that will allow a machine to recognize that it is under attack. According to him: "National cyber defense creates an economic growth engine for the country. This is a market estimated at about 60 billion dollars and in the end everything is built on the people." Steinherz added that Israel is a powerhouse in the field and its market value in the field is equal to the entire world together except the USA.

Esti Pashin, head of cyber systems at the Aerospace Industry explained why the hacker can win: "In cyber it is easy to create false identities. We set up a fake identity on Facebook and within 48 hours she had 150 friends. Invite her to parties. They gossiped about her. We complained about her. Secondly, this is a particularly huge slowdown and, in addition, most of the traffic is encrypted and these companies prioritize the privacy of users over the security of countries. The bad guys win. It is much easier to attack than to defend. Indeed, we see that the number of attacks is only increasing."

"The key to coping is innovation, taking 60-year-old technologies and converting them to the cyber world. We need to create collaborations with startups. We see ourselves as a responsible adult who should help young entrepreneurs. We need good hackers to learn to defend ourselves and therefore we must establish more R&D centers in which good hackers will develop. "