These are the 3 tenants of Russia's ongoing cyber campaigns in the United States

These are the 3 tenants of Russia’s ongoing cyber campaigns in the United States

by Alex Hollings · February 7, 2018

According to multiple sources, including Secretary of State under Donald Trump, Rex Tillerson, the Kremlin’s varied digital campaign against the United States remains ongoing. While the topic has becoming a politically charged one within the United States, the informed debate is not about whether or not Russia has worked to manipulate events within the United States, but rather, to what extent have they been successful.

While Russia’s cyber warfare apparatus employs a broad spectrum of methodologies, many of their efforts can be sorted into one of three categories:

About Alex Hollings

Alex Hollings writes on a breadth of subjects ranging from fitness to foreign policy, all presented through the lens of his experiences as a U.S. Marine, athlete and scholar. A football player, rugby player and fighter, Hollings has spent the better part of his adult life competing in some of the most physically demanding sports on the planet. Hollings possesses a master's degree in communications from Southern New Hampshire University, as well as a bachelor's degree in Corporate and Organizational Communications from Framingham State University.

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Patrick G
Awesome piece. Keep it up Alex.
minou
The Ruseians are masters of this crap, having used it against their own people for decades. We can’t allow them to continue to do the same to us. Turn off social media and actually talk to your friends and family.
Ron M
Russian Influence; Tide pod challenge.
Back Doc
'Tenets' Russians are tenants of cow pastures and museums. Bullshit artists. Only thing they can lay valid claim to being good at is selling bullshit. Its not technology or innovation they're good at. I agree with the positions laid out. The image of a dog chasing its tail is appropriate I think. Russians well practiced in it, and therefore skilled at inducing others to do it. My opinion, since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has had no greater ally in advancing their ambitions and position in geopolitics than the weakness and ineptitude of the Obama administration capped by the anti-Trump spy novel shenanigans conduct of the US intelligence and law enforcement community around the 2016 presidential election, all coming to light now. They did nothing different than they always do to make gains, and thats just annoying. We can all stop feeding the bear by turning off the 24/7 news channels and twitterverse for a while to stop being induced into spinning for awhile and going nowhere, and instead going outside and map out a route for a hike to get from point A to point B.
Susan B
Our tenets for dealing with Russia should be to find their efforts, frustrate their efforts, and fend against their future efforts.