{"id":14868,"date":"2018-07-20T21:09:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T21:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/07\/20\/why-the-new-plan-to-attribute-foreign-cyberattacks-may-not-be-enough\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:42:03","slug":"why-the-new-plan-to-attribute-foreign-cyberattacks-may-not-be-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/cyber\/2018\/07\/20\/why-the-new-plan-to-attribute-foreign-cyberattacks-may-not-be-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the new plan to attribute foreign cyberattacks may not be enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Justice Department has pledged to attribute foreign cyberattacks, hacking and disinformation intended to sway American elections as part of a new policy. The hope is that by identifying the attackers it can help to avoid a repeat of the 2016 presidential campaign, when the Obama administration was largely silent on Russia\u2019s influence operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But experts and government officials have raised questions about the effectiveness of the Justice Department\u2019s new policy, released July 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department said in a new report that it would consider a range of actions in the face of a foreign effort to undermine the democratic process. They might alert targets of the influence campaign. They could notify technology companies if they are being used to spread disinformation. They might just call out the influence operation in a public statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cExposing schemes to the public is an important way to neutralize them,\u201d said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein after the report was released, while speaking at the Aspen Security Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Observers, however, have noted that the new plan\u2019s impact may be limited. Even as Rosenstein announced the policy, he cautioned it would be \u201climited by our obligation to protect intelligence sources and methods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe should not attribute activity to a source unless we possess high confidence that foreign agents are responsible for it,\u201d Rosenstein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, attribution is less than a perfect science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDespite what you might think, the popular notion of CSI: Cyber \u2026 it\u2019s often not the instant that something happens\u201d it can be attributed, said Tonya Ugoretz, head of the cyberthreat intelligence integration center at the office of the Director of National Intelligence. \u201cWe often learn details about activity later, out of order in bits and pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked during an event at the Washington Post on June 20 if the new attribution effort would have made a difference during the 2016 presidential campaign, Ugoretz was unsure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say,\u201d she said, but added government agencies have learned from the Russian disinformation campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new guidance could be a more aggressive application of an old policy. 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By the way, you are getting ravaged and I just wanted to show up and tell you,\u201d joked Mike Rogers, former Republican House intelligence committee chairman, at the Washington Post event. \u201cThat is the wrong time to be there, that\u2019s why this is so important get ahead of this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critics also point out that the Trump administration has not deterred Russia from continuing its influence campaigns in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the things nobody has done a good job of so far is really imposing costs on bad state actors for their activity,\u201d said Painter during the Washington Post event. \u201cThere are a lot of great people you talk to who are trying to protect their election systems. 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