What we’re reading this month: June 2022

What we’re reading this month: June 2022

As you’d imagine, our talented team of intelligence analysts spend a considerable amount of time reading different material each month, in order to stay abreast of the latest developments within our industry. This puts the team in the best place to provide answers to the important questions that our clients need to know about. Some articles that have taken our attention this month can be seen below.

Roman – Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War


In the 29-page report, published on 22 Jun 2022, Microsoft detailed lessons learned from the battles along the various fronts of cyberspace in the Russia-Ukraine war of 2022. 


The report provides insight into five key areas of the cyberwar. It details the value of Cloud technology in protecting Ukraine’s digital operations and data assets. By moving their digital infrastructure to the Cloud, Ukraine minimized the impact that attacks on their physical infrastructure would have on the country’s ability to stay online and operate effectively. It showed how technological advances in internet-connected end-point protection since the NotPetya attacks in 2017 had enabled Ukraine to more quickly push out protective software code to the country’s digital infrastructure. It was interesting to visualize the different TTPs used by Russia’s various security agencies, as well as the time and locations of significant cyberattacks laid over a map of Ukraine. Fans of Liveuamap take note.


Russian cyber and military operations in Ukraine

Microsoft provides some interesting statistics in their report regarding attacks on allied governments outside of Ukraine. Notably, since the start of the war, Russia had seen a 29 percent success rate when attempti ..

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