Nakasone Floor (Paul Nakasone)

Nakasone Floor (Paul Nakasone)

As of April 2018, Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone heads the Ground Forces Cyber ​ ​ Command. USA He is also the creator of the joint tactical group Ares, the key task of which was the fight in cyberspace against the digital infrastructure of ISIS (banned in the Russian Federation as an extremist group).

Biography

2018: Rumour of possible NSA chief appointment

Wired reported on April 3, 2018 that the National Security Agency and the US Cyber ​ ​ Command will soon be headed by General Paul Nakasone. This means that for the first time since 2010, when the NSA and Cyber ​ ​ Command were paired into a single structure, they will be led by a person for whom military action in cyberspace is a "native element." Until now, the leadership role in this tandem belonged to NSA immigrants.

As noted, Nakasone is an expert in offensive actions in cyberspace. It is these actions that are primarily carried out by the US Cyber ​ ​ Command, while the "cyber units" of the NSA are mainly engaged in intelligence activities. There were concerns in US intelligence circles that under Nakasone's leadership the focus would shift to offensive operations, while the NSA would not receive the resources it needed.

The NSA is currently going through far from the best of times: in recent years - starting in 2013 - the agency has experienced a series of major leaks of classified information, which have extremely negatively affected its activities. Edward Snowden's casus was only a single episode; in the case of similar situations with contractors who received unauthorized access to classified information, there were more.

A peculiar culmination was the leak of a large number of hacker NSA tools in 2016. In 2017, one of the main exploits from this set - Eternalblue - was used by the developers malwares WannaCry and. Petya The spread of WannaCry has acquired the character of a global epidemic, and Petya was used for cyber attacks infrastructure, but Ukraine also "hooked" facilities in several other countries, Europe as well as in the United States and. Australia

Wired cites the opinion of outside experts who believe that the NSA least of all needs an outsider leader. On the other hand, high-ranking NSA officials are extremely positive about the figure of Nakasone, even though he did not do too much cyber intelligence as such. He led NSA operations in 2002-2004, but they focused on supporting military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Of separate concern to experts surveyed by Wired is the fact that "too much control" over the World Wide Web will be concentrated in the hands of one general.

We say that the most revolutionary technologies since Gutenberg are in the hands of one general. It's just not American, "said Jason Healy, a former member of President George W. Bush's administration. and a current member of the Directorate of the Atlantic Council dealing with cyberspace issues.

Towards the end of Barack Obama's term, the question arose of dividing the NSA and Cyber ​ ​ Command into separate structures, especially given that Cybercom is now an independent military command, and not a unit of the Strategic Command of the US Armed Forces.

Nakasone himself stated that he views the NSA and Cyber ​ ​ Command as "unique entities, each of which has its own identity, leaders and oversight mechanisms." At the same time, he emphasized that he does not experience prejudice either in relation to maintaining their current unity, or in relation to possible division.

In any case, the fact that the NSA is highly likely to be headed by a military man, an expert in conducting offensive operations in cyberspace, looks symbolic and fully consistent with the general spirit of the times, experts say.^[1]

The Internet with a share of convention grew out of the defense project; over the next decades, however, it developed as part of civilian infrastructure and became an integral part of everyday life almost all over the world, "said Roman Ginyatullin, an information security expert at SEC Consult Services. "However, for the past year we have seen a growing militarization of cyberspace, and this process, apparently, cannot be stopped. Worse, this process is not regulated by anything and in no way - there are no international agreements that would limit the use of cyber weapons, and they are unlikely to appear until the direct result of the cyber attack is the death of a large number of innocent people.

2024: Joining the OpenAI Board of Directors

On June 13, 2024, OpenAI announced that retired US Army General Paul Nakasone had joined its board of directors. He previously served as head of the National Security Agency (NSA) and US Cybercom.

Nakasone began acting in the OpenAI Protection and Security Committee. This structure is responsible for making recommendations for all projects and operations of the company. OpenAI says cybersecurity is critical to meeting its AI goals. It is assumed that Nakasone's experience, including during his work at the NSA, will contribute to OpenAI's efforts to implement AI-based protection tools to quickly detect threats and effectively respond to them.

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Bloomberg

General Nakasone's vast experience in areas such as cybersecurity will help OpenAI achieve a mission to create general-purpose artificial intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity, says Bret Taylor, Chairman of the Board of OpenAI.

The concept of AGI involves the creation of software with intelligence similar to human. It is assumed that such neural networks will be able to perform tasks for which they were not specially trained. In other words, AGI is not limited to a specific area, it can self-learn and solve even those problems for which it was not originally intended.

It is noted that as of mid-June 2024, the OpenAI board of directors, in addition to CEO Sam Altman, Taylor and Nakasone, includes Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman (Nicole Simicole) and Seligman. Dee Templeton of Microsoft is a non-voting observer.^[2]

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