US Issues Iran Cyber Threat Warning: How To Protect Your Networks
About this episode
The episode discusses the US government's warning about potential cyber threats from Iran and how to protect networks.
As the US gears up for a possible military confrontation with Iran; the federal government has issued a warning for US companies and government agencies, to tighten up cyber defenses to ensure our networks here at home, can withstand possible state-sponsored cyber attacks. But though the current buildup of military force against Iran is fairly recent; our adversarial relationship with that country goes back many years, perhaps exemplified best by the release of the Stuxnet worm that sabotaged Iran's nuclear program, in 2011. Listen now to find out more, and also what you can do right now, to harden your company or government agency’s defenses against persistent threats from Iran.
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