Geo-Poli-Cyber™ Risks
What Are Geo-Poli-Cyber™ (GPCyber™) Risks, Threats & Warfare, and why Cyber Security Alone Cannot Mitigate Them?
Geo-Poli-Cyber™ & Econ-Geo-Poli-Cyber™
Warfare, Attacks & Events.
Today’s Unmitigated & Catastrophic Risks & Threats.
To Do Nothing vs To Act Promptly.
Learn, Identify, & Mitigate.
Call to Action
Geo-Poli-Cyber™ Risks – Background.
MLi Group chairman Khaled Fattal created the terms Poli-Cyber™ and Geo-Poli-Cyber™ (GPCyber™) in 2012 because of seismic events that had started happening in prior years. The risks of these events and their trends led Fattal to believe that they will compromise stakeholders worldwide. He also believed that these compromises will force a critical need to change mindsets and security strategies, models, solutions forever. Fattal further infused his vision and solutions with the philosophy that if you cannot name the treat you cannot mitigate that threat.
If you Can’t Name the Threat, you Cannot Mitigate That Threat.
Geo-Poli-Cyber™ attacks are political, ideological, terrorist, extremist, ‘religious’ and/or geo-politically motivated attacks which cyber security strategies and solutions continue failing to mitigate, defend and protect national and corporate entities, on unprecedented scales, and with devastating consequences.
More Sinister and Destructive Than Financial Motivations
Geo-Poli-Cyber™ attacks are significantly different from financially motivated cyber-attacks in damage, scale, magnitude as well as in risk mitigation strategies and solutions.
GPCyber™ attacks can have dire direct & indirect impact on the nation state, organizations and their stakeholders. This is especially so in their impact on citizens’ lives and livelihoods.
GPCyber™ Motivations & Mitigation Strategies & Solutions
MLi Group chairman Mr. Khaled Fattal has been involved in the global infrastructure of the Internet and its security and stability since the mid to late 90’s.
in 2012, led by chairman Fattal, MLi Group embarked on creating the ‘Survivability Strategies™, Solutions and Protocols to mitigate Geo-Poli-Cyber™ risks that go beyond followed strategies and solutions. MLi has continued evolving and improving them ever since.
Vindicated Vision & Predictions
Fattal accurately predicted that cyber security solutions designed to mitigate financially motivated attacks will fail to mitigate GPCyber™ motivated ones.
Today, national and corporate resiliency, continuity, and cyber security strategies and solutions keep failing on unprecedented scales in defending and mitigating alike – yet they continue being followed and relied upon like gospel to the detriment of all stakeholders.
Fattal was also vindicated with his 2012 visionary prediction that GPCyber™ attacks will lead to unprecedented and unmitigated events that have become routine occurrences and a fact of today’s daily life.
Ransomware often a Decoy to More Sinister GPCyber™ Motivations
MLi Group has documented specific incidents where financially motivated ransomware cyber attacks were used as a decoy for more sinister GPCyber™ motivations. Ask us to address this factor when you submit your request for a confidential private briefing.
GPCyber™ Perpetrators
Some of the Key perpetrators of devastating, debilitating and destructive GPCyber™ motivated attacks are the new breed of extremist and terrorist groups, lone wolves, and rogue states amongst many others.
Some GPCyber™ perpetrators are often directed or sponsored by national security agencies of not only enemies but ‘presumed allies’ who can often cause more damage than adversaries or enemies.
GPCyber™ Perpetrators’ Goals
GPCyber™ attacks are often aimed at coercing, altering or damaging the economic fate and/or the political directions of nations and organizations.B
GPCyber™ – Birth of a New Threat Vector
Today, the world is heavily threatened by this new “GPCyber™ Threat Vector” and its risks are escalating exponentially.
National Sovereignty & Corporate Security at New Risk
Organizations and governments all over the world that allow themselves to remain seriously unmitigated against GPCyber™ attacks are increasing the likelihood of potential catastrophic events being perpetrated on them. Such compromises will not only seriously damage their corporate and national security, but also ‘Effective, Competitive Sovereign and Corporate Survivability.”
Geo-Poli-Cyber™ & Econ-Geo-Poli-Cyber™ Attacks & Warfare can take many forms, including:
- Cyber-attacks on Critical national Infrastructure: Targeting critical infrastructure such as power grids, transportation systems, or financial institutions to disrupt the functioning of a country or region and to create and gain a strategic advantage.
- Geospatial cyber operations: Using geospatial data and analytics to identify vulnerabilities in physical systems and infrastructure, and then launching targeted cyber-attacks to exploit those weaknesses.
- Cyber espionage and surveillance: Using digital means to gather intelligence on a country’s or organization’s physical operations, such as monitoring military movements, tracking supply chains, or gathering economic intelligence.
- Purposed Disinformation™: This includes the use of propaganda, deep fakes, social media and other digital channels to spread disinformation or half-truths to influence public opinion, destabilize national economies, governments, or disrupt global events. They are often very effective in altering outcomes of elections and voting processes and have caused serious damage to many democracies.
- Cyber-enabled physical attacks: Using digital technologies to facilitate physical attacks, such as hacking into industrial control systems to manipulate critical infrastructure or using drones and other unmanned systems to conduct physical attacks.
- Geo-tagging and targeted attacks: Using geospatial data to target specific individuals, organizations, or locations with cyber-attacks, such as hacking into a company’s database to steal sensitive information or disrupting a country’s financial systems.
- Cyber warfare in urban areas: Using digital technologies to disrupt the functioning of urban areas, such as hacking into traffic management systems to create congestion or disrupting public transportation systems.
- Reverse Engineering Intelligence Gathering: often used to target individuals with access to highly classified and sensitive government and/or Critical National Infrastructure, or corporate information in preparation for a targeted Geo-Poli-Cyber action ( any or all of the items above).
Geo-Poli-Cyber & Econ-Geo-Poli-Cyber™ warfare can be used to achieve a range of objectives, including:
- Strategic advantage: Disrupting an enemy, adversary, or an ally’s critical infrastructure or stealing sensitive information to gain a strategic advantage in a conflict.
- Influence operations: Using cyber-attacks and disinformation to influence public opinion or manipulate a country’s decision-making process.
- Deterrence: Using cyber warfare capabilities to deter an adversary from taking certain actions or to demonstrate a country’s willingness to use force.
- Protection of national interests: Using Geo-Poli-Cyber warfare to protect a country’s national interests, such as protecting its critical infrastructure or preventing the attack on, or the theft of classified, highly sensitive information and intellectual property.
Summary & Call to Action.
Summary
Today’s Geo-Poli-Cyber™ & Econ-Geo-Poli-Cyber™ attacks & warfare can cause devastating, destructive and catastrophic consequences. These risks and threats have sky-rocketed recently with the breakneck speed advancements in AI and technological breakthroughs.
However, and more alarming is the fact that the best Continuity, Resiliency and Cyber Security Strategies and Solutions continue failing to effectively mitigate and defend, while they continue being followed like gospel.
- Still willing to follow what can no longer secure you, your organization, or Country?
- Do you know What new risks Geo-Poli-Cyber™ threats are exposing you to?
- Can you afford to Do Nothing?
To Do Nothing vs To Act Promptly.
Learn, Identify, & Mitigate.
Call to Action
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