22-07-2025
Cyber warfare has arrived. Here's the United States' best defense.
Elise Stefanik, a Republican, represents New York's 21st District in the U.S. House of Representatives and serves on the armed services and intelligence committees. Stephen Prince is CEO of TFG Asset Management.
Cyberwar is no longer a future threat — it is today's front line. Whether at the fingertips of Iran, Russia or, most concerningly, China, cyber conflict is now the continuation of war by other tools: malware, phishing campaigns, zero-day attacks and more. As the recent global hack of Microsoft servers showed, in this era, fire walls matter as much as firepower.