Ex-NSA hacker says a supply chain cyberattack is one of the things that keeps him up at night

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David Kennedy, also the founder of cybersecurity companies TrustedSec and Binary Defense, says successful attacks may embolden adversarial nations.

in 2020, which compromised the IT firm and its customers including big U.S. companies and the federal government.

Successful attacks may lead other adversarial nations to wage a cyberattack against the United States, with aim taken at increasingly vulnerable cloud computing, Kennedy said. "Every other adversary that we have in the U.S. is looking at this and saying this is an area of opportunity, and cloud is definitely the next evolution of attack for us."

Another thing that keeps Kennedy up at night is the United States' lack of offensive cybersecurity capabilities. "We have to do more going after these countries and holding them accountable, especially on ransomware."

 

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