Have you ever wondered what happens in war ? Well I think for the first time in a long time we all will see how it gets played out. In most scenarios one side or the other attempts to disable communication, supply lines, and attack in hopes of taking over the other side. Today, while going through logs I noticed how quiet it is. Have you ? Splunk showed no activities that we see normally at client locations.

What does this mean? Is it the sea going out before a tidal wave comes in ? I suspect their efforts of bad actors are now pointed elsewhere. I suppose either in fear, allegiance, or in retribution as good & bad actors could be doing a good thing for a change.

What do we see will be the first thing to get hit ? Banks and financial institutions near the war and of those responsible for sanctions. Associations of the oligarchs and powers that be in Russia will fall. Persistence, sanctions, freezing funds, and morale will crash at such a rate that some half thought out decisions could be made. We say half baked for the slang. Ostracize the oligarchs and people so far removed from common life that their world crashes. So if Russia ruble is now less than a cent, Russian hackers have no motivation as there is no pay for this monster’s thirst for domination of a country with no Nazis, I’d say they turn on him, from a safe distance.  Again, only reporting based on what report we see. We still have no knowledge of what is really going on boots to the ground.

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We only know what we are told. No one really knows if Ukraine has atrocities against their own people as did Syria as reported. No one really knows if the decision to get into the the UN really lit the fire in the Putin’s response.  Politically speaking, I guess it would be a hit against Russia for a neighboring country to do that as it would put US or NATO missiles that much closer to Moscow. We do no that Biblically speaking Ezekiel 38 & 39 are to happen. Is this the road to Israel ? This article was written before Israel entered into mediation. Now updated 3/6/2022 is that side of the globe heating up with Iran near nuclear grade launch readiness and all the issues in Taiwan. Regardless of your belief, the Bible was here long before you, and the word shall forever endure long after you read this. Hitler tried to remove God and his people, I don’t see Hitler today but I do have my Bible.

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I predict an implosion will occur as intelligence communities at the federal level turn to more sophisticated way to entice the other side for immunity.  That’s what the bad will look like for the Russian side of things.

How does the cyber threat level look for the U.S. ? Well as dismal as it could be. Companies will have to start looking at security services.  If you don’t have a firewall that is next generation application aware or have a decent backup to combat malware at war time levels. Contact us sales@netwerkguardian.com We have some enterprise class solutions that do the trick at a fraction of the cost.  Some other solutions will be XDR and incident response and you may have to be referred to another integrator partner from Lexington MA. They empower you and enable business.  Having a full proof arsenal of strategies is a start to combat this. I would venture that DNS management systems and routing providers of the internet will disable traffic from reaching places geolocation wise. I think some of that is happening now. Its far too quiet on the logs.

I think run on banks is next, assets are better in hand than digital. Worse case scenario this escalates to countries that helped and can really turn into a movie. We need to nip this quick, stop the aggressor, have him realize his issues, and stop. Until then we have to cripple their ability to get things done.

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