Digital economy feature: Cyber security and information warfare.

The recent data breach through credit bureau Experian of massive amounts of Standard Bank client data has once again brought the issue of cyber security to the fore. The risks are not only increasing at a company level but at a country level too as we see a cyber cold war brewing between the US and Russia and the US and China. Michael Avery interviews one of America's most well-informed and insightful experts on international affairs and foreign policy. He has an especially strong background in cyber security, US intelligence, US-Russia relations, and the challenges of the changing international order. George Beebe is Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for National Interest and his recent book (August 2019), The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe, examines how changing technology, the dysfunctional politics, garbled communications, and unsettled regional conflicts are combining to trap the US and Russia in a disastrous escalation spiral neither one wants or expects.