On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Chris Painter, America’s first chief cyber diplomat during the Obama administration and who is now with the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, discusses what’s next now that the United States, NATO, the EU and allies have agreed to expose Beijing’s malicious cyber activities, countering China and Russia in cyberspace, tackling ransomware attacks as a national security priority, and the challenge posed by spyware in the wake of news reports alleging that products by Israel’s NSO Group has been used against government leaders and journalists worldwide with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Dmitri Alperovich, the co-founder and former CTO of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike who is now the cofounder and executive chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, John Cofrancesco of Fortress Information Security, and Justin Sherman of Wired Magazine and the Atlantic Council think tank who just authored a new paper “Reassessing RuNet: Russian internet isolation and implications for Russian cyber behavior,” discuss the largest ransomware attacks on record by Russia’s ReVil group, what the Biden administration must do next to better either deter Moscow or force it to crack down on domestic cyber criminal groups, improving defenses against ransomware attacks, and authoritarian states and the internet with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.