MICROSOFT
“ Our defence customers face adversaries who are increasingly taking an integrated offensive posture – with traditional kinetic effects now married with cyber effectors and disinformation campaigns . That is modern warfare , and it is playing out in real-time .”
KATE MAXWELL CTO , WORLDWIDE DEFENCE & INTELLIGENCE of compute capabilities , communications infrastructure , and sophisticated cyber effects has opened up a new realm of warfare in the information domain .
Today , as Maxwell elucidates , this new landscape is playing out in real-time : with the ongoing conflict in Ukraine a notable example of the world ’ s first “ broadband war .”
“ Defence and Intelligence leaders have been predicting this moment for a long time . This is what modern warfare looks like — where you have cyber and disinformation campaigns leveraged in concert with kinetic effects ,” she says . “ We are seeing this play out in Ukraine today , right this very moment . And this did not come as a surprise .
“ At Microsoft , we help governments and defence organisations find digital refuge in the hyperscale cloud , and Ukraine did a fantastic job of using the cloud to secure their digital defences and keep citizen services up and running — even as Russia launched their offensive campaign . I am proud of the way that Microsoft – and the broader tech ecosystem – has stepped up to support Ukraine . Those efforts have made an impact , particularly on the cyber , comms , and information front .”
30 July 2023