I knew that Tom’s “kind of urgent” was likely an alarm bell.
I knew from more than two decades of working with Tom that he was typically calm and understated, two key qualities when dealing with crises. Yttrium’s latest threat hit my radar in the form of an instant message on the last day of November 2020, asking if I had “five minutes for something kind of urgent.” The message came from Tom Burt, our vice president responsible for a wide range of cybersecurity issues. WHY THE SOLARWINDS ATTACK WAS SO DEVASTATING And instead of conducting its clandestine efforts in back rooms and through dead drops, this 21st-century successor to the KBG often does its work by penetrating computer networks owned by private enterprises and citizens around the world. Yttrium is one of the most sophisticated cyberthreats for many of our customers, as well as for Microsoft itself. Within our own cybersecurity ranks, the SVR is called Yttrium, a metallic rare-earth and toxic mineral found in the Earth’s crust. Inside Microsoft we use obscure elements from the periodic table to classify and code-name different nation-state actors that are engaged in cyber activity. And not unlike the tech companies in similarly sprawling campuses across the United States that employ our best and brightest technology minds, the SVR has a large and experienced staff of talented cyber professionals. These days, this includes a wide variety of cyber activities. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) the SVR manages from these buildings its global espionage and external counterintelligence operations, including electronic surveillance in countries around the world. Headquartered in a sprawling office complex in southwest Moscow, its buildings from the outside look like a typical modern office park in the suburbs. In the waning months of 2020-a particularly arduous and painful year for the entire world-the SVR threw a wet blanket on an already dampened holiday. Both conduct espionage and counterintelligence. Two new agencies were born: the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR), a spy agency tasked with gathering intelligence, and the enforcement arm, the Federal Security Service (FSB), which is charged with security. All rights reserved.When the Communist Bloc splintered, so did the KGB. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. "Some of the things we're watching in this regard are efforts to align with masculine preferences of a Trump base of Republicans." "We're seeing gendered and racialized images and messages from both men and women candidates," Dittmar said. Majewski looking to fulfill "masculine demand." Motherhood as a credential has been a common trope in 2022 advertisements, according to Dittmar, with candidates like "Mom on a Mission" Heidi Ganahl, the Republican nominee for Colorado governor, and Arkansas Governor GOP nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders citing their experiences raising their children as an asset.Ī return to stereotypically male themes has also been apparent in races with male candidates, according to Dittmar who pointed to gun-toting ads by Republicans like Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens and Ohio House candidate J.R. Kelly Dittmar, director of research for CAWP, told reporters Tuesday that both pro-abortion and anti-abortion female candidates are claiming their personal experiences give them a better understanding of the debate.īeyond reproductive rights issues, other gender themes have also been key in campaign strategy and messaging. Wade eliminating a federal right to abortion, reproductive rights have drawn renewed attention from both candidates and voters.
With the Supreme Court's recent decision which overturned Roe v. This year CAWP began aggregating data by candidates' self-identified background groups instead of a singular statistic for "women of color," emphasizing their "desire to move away from treatment of women as monolithic and challenge the centering of whiteness as a default racial/ethnic category."Īs women running for office in the 2022 election cycle have set several records, themes of gender have become more pronounced in the national discourse.
There are also a record number of Latina/Hispanic gubernatorial and US House candidates, and a record number of Asian/Pacific Islander women are running for governor. Black women have set record numbers for candidates in gubernatorial, senate and House races in this cycle.
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