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.

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman,Nigel Inkster, the director of transnational threats and political risk at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, discusses IISS’ new report — “Cyber Capabilities and National Power: Net Assessment” — that ranks 15 leading cyber nations that places the United States alone in the top tier, how to counter China and Russia, fighting the ransomware scourge, deterrence in cyberspace, The balance between offense and defense, the line between intelligence gathering and an act of war, and NATO’s Article V and cyber with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.