Stuxnet

When you trigger a 9.0, bad things happen.

And also, I'll leave it at this, Dr. Skye, the Stuxnet virus appears to have been a problem in the Fukushima facility recently.

It dismantled the safety equipment and the Stuxnet virus, of course, a creation of the U.S. and Israeli military.

So there's a lot of layers to this.

Wow.

Yeah.

To stop the, we call it Stuxnet.

Yeah.

The U.S. government is very upset with us for doing this.

Now the ramifications of that are huge, right? Cause if we create a super intelligent model and it's all these things, It could do a lot of damage digitally, potentially also in the physical world.

Like Stuxnet's a great example of digital technology enacting itself in the physical world.

For folks who don't remember, the Iranian centrifuges were literally exploded The way that it happened seems to be that somebody downloaded a firmware for the centrifuge.

They spin really fast.

First doing small mobile operator projects, really cool.

Then that was actually just after Stuxnet, so we were getting concerned about cybersecurity.

And then BASF gave me the opportunity to actually be in charge, lead their global cybersecurity program together with a couple of other really cool colleagues from different regions.

So that's where I was like head down for years in industrial cybersecurity.

Nine of them sit inside the Department of Defense.

Eichmann in 1960, the Munich Retaliation Campaign, Stuxnet, the Nuclear Archive in 2018, the Pager Operation in 2024.

Those generate books, films, television series.

And A200 generates a spreadsheet.

Yeah, absolutely.

If you look at historic attacks on air gap clouds, I don't think any of them are more prevalent than the Stuxnet attack.

That was thought to have begun in 2005.

So you're talking 21 years ago, advanced actors were attacking air gap clouds and they weren't using the traditional methods.

And what's really neat to us is that scalability and flexibility of the Google ecosystem and the Google distributed cloud air gap portfolio, that it goes all the way down to something that is human portable and all the way up to something that is a data center or multiple data centers in scale.

provide that isolation.

And TJ mentioned some of the conflicts that have really drawn our attention with Stuxnet being obviously an operational technology intrusion that happened years back.

The conflict in Eastern Europe has drawn all of our eyes and many nations' eyes to the fact that the battlefield is changing, right? And if you look at some of the first attacks that happened in the conflict in Ukraine, one of the first was an attack on infrastructure that was a cyber attack, right? The acid rain attack bricked thousands of satellite modems across Europe.