Baker McKenzie’s TMT Looking Ahead 2022 five-part series explores key themes, offers timely insights, and lays out recommendations for technology, media and telecommunication companies looking to navigate the latest industry developments. Topics covered include tech regulation and compliance, tech M&A, interactive entertainment, 5G and TMT as the driver of change.
Heightened geopolitical global activity can lead to an increase in cyber risk for businesses. “Grey zone” and “hybrid” are two terms relating to cyber attacks that are widely used at the moment. Both terms now typically relate to geopolitical activity; “grey zone” activity is activity by or attributed to a nation state actor which is between normal peacetime relations and traditional kinetic warfare. Hybrid is a reference to the fact that modern warfare is almost always a combination of traditional kinetic action and cyber (or other non-kinetic) activity.