How Ukraine’s Cyber Defenders Prepped for War

In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity and privacy issues, including top takeaways from Ukraine’s cyber defense success, how a European regulator suspended Facebook data transfers to the United States, and the state of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on its five-year anniversary.

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The panelists – Anna Delaney, director, productions; Tony Morbin, executive news editor, EU; and Mathew Schwartz, executive editor, DataBreachToday and Europe – discuss:

• What lessons policymakers and defenders should be learning and applying 15 months after Russia intensified its cyberwarfare offensive against Ukraine;
• How Facebook’s owner, Meta, has been fined 1.2 billion euros – $1.3 billion – for mishandling people’s data when transferring it between Europe and the United States;
• The state of GDPR five years after the tough privacy law went into effect.

The ISMG Editors’ Panel runs weekly. Don’t miss our previous installments, including the May 12 edition on how the federal government hacked Russia’s “Snake” Operation and the May 19 edition on the increasing fallout from the Capita breach.