Coalition MP and Doctor of Military Sciences Jarno Limnéll warns that cyber espionage targeting Finland may increase with NATO membership. He emphasizes that cyber security is not only information technology, but a key part of the security of society as a whole.
According to the coalition MP Jarno Limnéll, NATO-Finland must be prepared for an increase in cyber espionage. VILLE RINNE
According to Member of Parliament Jarno Limnélli (KOK), with NATO membership, Finland must be prepared for the fact that entities engaged in illegal information acquisition, i.e. espionage, are more interested in our country than before.
According to Limnéll, espionage is increasingly directed at the digital world.
– The threat is real, and it should be taken seriously, the coalition’s parliamentary group warned in his announcement on Tuesday.
“We don’t know what’s going on in information networks”
Spying is most successful when it is not even detected.
Limnéll says in the press release that the defense industry in particular is the prime target of cyber espionage in Finland.
– We don’t know what is going on in Finland’s data networks at the moment or how we are being spied on through the cyber world, Limnéll states.
The main players are Russia, China and North Korea
– Cyber espionage is carried out by government actors and various hacker groups. North Korea is a very capable cyber spy. Russia and China are the main cyberespionage threats to Finland, Limnéll states.
Limnéll says that one emerging trend in the world of espionage is China’s skill in artificial intelligence-based cyber espionage methods.
According to him, there are also signs of advanced language patterns used to improve the quality of phishing.
Technological national defense course?
Limnéll, who works as a working life professor of cyber security at Aalto University, underlines that the Finnish authorities, companies and reliable international partners must cooperate in order to defend against cyber espionage.
According to Limnéll, with the NATO membership, Finland has a better view of the ways in which cyber espionage is practised. This information about him must be used to develop our own expertise.
– We also need more and more understanding of cyber espionage in the top management of society and companies. For example, a technological national defense course would serve this purpose well, suggests Limnéll.