France’s defence secretary Florence Parly had a declaration to make this week: “Cyber war has begun.” And she said the Euro nation’s military will use its “cyber arms as all other traditional weapons… to respond and attack,” as well as setting up a military bug bounty program. From a report: Parly made her pledges during a speech to the Forum International de Cybersecurite (FIC) in the northern French town of Lille. Her speech was on a topic that most Western countries shy away from addressing directly in public. “The cyber weapon is not only for our enemies,” said France’s defence secretary this afternoon, speaking through a translator. “No. It’s also, in France, a tool to defend ourselves. To respond and attack.” Her remarks will be seen as moving the debate about offensive cyber capabilities — not just so-called “active defence” but using infosec techniques as another weapon in the arsenal of state-on-state warfare — to a new level.
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