(20 Jul 2024)
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London - 20 July 2024
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Ciaran Martin, former Head of National Security Center:
"I wasn't that surprised that an accident caused severe global digital disruption. I guess I was a little surprised that the cause of it was a software update from a very well respected cybersecurity company. So, we've talked for a long time in the industry about the inherent fragility of foundational parts of the internet, these little bits of activity and infrastructure that underpin the whole thing and if they go wrong they can have really serious global consequences. But for the most part I wouldn't have expected that to come from this source."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ciaran Martin, former Head of National Security Center:
"We've had large scale digital disruptions before, this may be one of the biggest, probably the biggest."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ciaran Martin, former Head of National Security Center:
"Will it change the industry, the tech industry? Well, I don't think there are any easy solutions to these global outage vulnerabilities that are quick, easy or cheap. This isn't the only single point of failure in global technology and fixing them all in a way that's consistent with the economics of the internet is really, really hard."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ciaran Martin, former Head of National Security Center:
"There's going to have to be a hard look at resilience. The big prize is can you, as technology changes and evolves, can you design out these flaws of the sort of first generations of technology? And that's incredibly difficult, it's also largely, sadly, for us in Europe, it's an American conversation, essentially, because that's where all the tech is. You know, if there are governments, whether in the UK and the European Union or whatever, thinking what can we do about this? Well, actually, it's because we've become dependent on a very American version of technology and the power to do anything about that doesn't rest in this continent. So I wouldn't bet on it. I think over time, if we get this right and the US government is quite rightly interested in what they call secure by design technology and so forth, so these things can't or can't happen so easily. I mean, that is the way forward, but it's monumentally hard to do and it requires American leadership."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ciaran Martin, former Head of National Security Center:
"It's not something that governments can fix quickly, easily or cheaply. And it requires a major dialogue with the tech industry, it requires looking strategically at how tech evolves, because you're not going to rip this all out and start again. But as newer technologies come in, you can look at how they're run, how they're configured, how they're architected, how they're regulated, how they're incentivized, and try and learn from some of these lessons in the past. So it's a long, slow process. So we're going to have to get used to stuff like this happening for quite a while to come."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ciaran Martin, Former head of National Security Center:
"There's sort of good news and bad news in terms of lessons from this. The good news is actually, perhaps paradoxically, it'd be quite hard to do this sort of operation as a hostile act. It's much easier to do it by mistake."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ciaran Martin, former Head of National Security Center:
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