andro barnovi

Speech made at the Cyber Defence & Network Security Conference January 24-26th, 2012.  Radisson Blue Portman Hotel, London Andro Barnovi Deputy Minister of Defence of Georgia, Rector of National Defence Academy Let me start by quoting a paragraph from the book “Inside Cyber Warfare” by Jeffrey Carr, who has worked on the open source intelligence investigation project into Russian cyber-attacks on Georgia in August ’08. The book cites the speech by former First Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of RF and former GRU Intelligence officer Vladislav Surkov who held closed-door conference with number of Russian spin-doctors right after the war in Georgia and explained how to use information as a weapon to Fight Russia’s enemies. He instructed that Net wars have always been an internal peculiarity of the Internet while the war in Georgia showed that the Net is a front just like the traditional media, and a front that is much faster to respond and much larg