Tel Aviv: Israel Sent a stern warning to Iran on Tuesday that cyber attacks Its done by proxy like hezbollah And Hamas will not be spared, and that retaliation will be directly targeted Tehran,
“Our policy is that if you play with Israel, you will have to pay the price,” he said. Now you can’t move Israel indirectly, through Hezbollah, Hamas, and away from it. If you are the bully who is going to send people to kill us, we are not going to try to fight those people, but we will try and kill the bully. And this applies to all dimensions – kinetic, covert and cyber. If someone is going to cyberattack us, we are going to attack back,” said Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
The warning comes at a time when Tehran is believed to have cyber capabilities and, according to sources here, has shared it with its Shia allies, Hezbollah and Hamas.
Bennett, who was speaking at a cyber security conference here, said Israel’s approach has generally not been “foolish to wreak havoc on Tehran”, any enemy it hits indirectly, though “Proxies” like Hezbollah and Hamas must “pay the price”.
The four-day cyber security event, an annual feature organized by Tel Aviv University and the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, brings together cyber security experts, corporates and government agencies to work with the private sector to protect cyberspace. It is being held after a gap of two years forced by the pandemic.
Bennett’s strong message to Iran came after Gabi Portnoy, director general of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate (INCD), said that Iran, together with Hezbollah and Hamas, has become Israel’s major rival in cyberspace. Sharing that 1500 attacks were averted in the past year by INCD teams, Portnoy presented Cyber-Dome – a new INCD project aimed at reducing cyber attacks and creating a big data, AI, proactive defense To act as a holistic approach.
The Cyber Dome is Israel’s evolving response to another security threat from rivals such as Iran, which has never reconciled itself to the existence of the Jewish nation. Cyber is seen as a new security area. While Israel has been among the movers in the early lead, it has had to contend with hostile neighbours, playing catch-up aggressively, as Portnoy cautioned.
“There is no longer just one kind of ideological official enemy. On the one hand – with Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran has become our major rival in cyber. We see them, we know how they work, and there we are On the other hand, the spectrum was also extended – to attackers, attacking groups, proxies, independent crime-organizations and private people,” he shared.
Drawing an analogy between Cyber-Dome and Israel’s Iron-Dome, Portnoy said: “Cyber-Dome will enhance national cyber-security by implementing new mechanisms in the national cyber perimeter, reducing damage caused by cyber-attacks Cyber-Dome will also provide tools and services to enhance the security of national assets as a whole… It will synchronize nation-level real-time detection, analysis and mitigation of threats.
Bennett said on Tuesday that global “collaboration” in cyberspace was important because the same bad guys who are attacking one company or country are also attacking a group of other countries. “So if you share information and tell everyone that this guy is attacking, everyone can defend themselves,” he said.
Stating that there is no longer any need to attack the enemy with commandos and armies, Bennett said the same effect could be achieved by a group of smart people with keyboards. “Cyber is going to be one of the most prominent dimensions of future warfare,” he said, adding that he was a little surprised at the lack of modern equipment in the war against Ukraine.
Also, with new elections expected in Israel only a year into Bennett’s term, the prime minister used the public event to make a political pitch and emphasize how his government had done so in just one year. Have worked for 10 years. He claimed that the unemployment rate was very high before he took office, but now anyone who needed a job had an opportunity. He said the growth rate was 8%, the highest in the advanced world. Also the Gaza side was at its quietest level in the last 15 years. “I am not happy about the elections…but we have proved that people who have differing political opinions…actually opposing opinions, can work together well,” he said.
Bennett said on 20 June that he would move to dissolve the Knesset, which would be followed by new elections.
“Our policy is that if you play with Israel, you will have to pay the price,” he said. Now you can’t move Israel indirectly, through Hezbollah, Hamas, and away from it. If you are the bully who is going to send people to kill us, we are not going to try to fight those people, but we will try and kill the bully. And this applies to all dimensions – kinetic, covert and cyber. If someone is going to cyberattack us, we are going to attack back,” said Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
The warning comes at a time when Tehran is believed to have cyber capabilities and, according to sources here, has shared it with its Shia allies, Hezbollah and Hamas.
Bennett, who was speaking at a cyber security conference here, said Israel’s approach has generally not been “foolish to wreak havoc on Tehran”, any enemy it hits indirectly, though “Proxies” like Hezbollah and Hamas must “pay the price”.
The four-day cyber security event, an annual feature organized by Tel Aviv University and the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, brings together cyber security experts, corporates and government agencies to work with the private sector to protect cyberspace. It is being held after a gap of two years forced by the pandemic.
Bennett’s strong message to Iran came after Gabi Portnoy, director general of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate (INCD), said that Iran, together with Hezbollah and Hamas, has become Israel’s major rival in cyberspace. Sharing that 1500 attacks were averted in the past year by INCD teams, Portnoy presented Cyber-Dome – a new INCD project aimed at reducing cyber attacks and creating a big data, AI, proactive defense To act as a holistic approach.
The Cyber Dome is Israel’s evolving response to another security threat from rivals such as Iran, which has never reconciled itself to the existence of the Jewish nation. Cyber is seen as a new security area. While Israel has been among the movers in the early lead, it has had to contend with hostile neighbours, playing catch-up aggressively, as Portnoy cautioned.
“There is no longer just one kind of ideological official enemy. On the one hand – with Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran has become our major rival in cyber. We see them, we know how they work, and there we are On the other hand, the spectrum was also extended – to attackers, attacking groups, proxies, independent crime-organizations and private people,” he shared.
Drawing an analogy between Cyber-Dome and Israel’s Iron-Dome, Portnoy said: “Cyber-Dome will enhance national cyber-security by implementing new mechanisms in the national cyber perimeter, reducing damage caused by cyber-attacks Cyber-Dome will also provide tools and services to enhance the security of national assets as a whole… It will synchronize nation-level real-time detection, analysis and mitigation of threats.
Bennett said on Tuesday that global “collaboration” in cyberspace was important because the same bad guys who are attacking one company or country are also attacking a group of other countries. “So if you share information and tell everyone that this guy is attacking, everyone can defend themselves,” he said.
Stating that there is no longer any need to attack the enemy with commandos and armies, Bennett said the same effect could be achieved by a group of smart people with keyboards. “Cyber is going to be one of the most prominent dimensions of future warfare,” he said, adding that he was a little surprised at the lack of modern equipment in the war against Ukraine.
Also, with new elections expected in Israel only a year into Bennett’s term, the prime minister used the public event to make a political pitch and emphasize how his government had done so in just one year. Have worked for 10 years. He claimed that the unemployment rate was very high before he took office, but now anyone who needed a job had an opportunity. He said the growth rate was 8%, the highest in the advanced world. Also the Gaza side was at its quietest level in the last 15 years. “I am not happy about the elections…but we have proved that people who have differing political opinions…actually opposing opinions, can work together well,” he said.
Bennett said on 20 June that he would move to dissolve the Knesset, which would be followed by new elections.