The Dire Predictions About a Russian Cyber Onslaught Haven't Come True in Ukraine. At Least Not Yet.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Ukraine's core cyberdefense has done better than expected because it focused on the issue after Russian hackers briefly knocked out power to swaths of the country in 2015 and 2016, said David Cowan, a veteran cybersecurity venture capitalist and corporate director, and because it has had help from American and European experts. "I would have thought that by now Russia would have disabled a lot more infrastructure around communications, power and water," Cowan said. "If Russia were attacking the U.S., there would be more cyber damage." The absence of major disruptions predicted by cyberwar doctrine has allowed Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to deliver propaganda coups with little more than a smartphone and a data link.

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