Professor Dan Bloomberg explains the global cyber situation: “Almost in every dimension”

A cyber research center will be established at the university within the existing research center for this type of vulnerability research, in cooperation with the Boeing company: “It is very difficult for them to turn to research or things that do not generate profit. Contact with the university can bring solutions without harming the profit line,” he explained.

The university recently signed a cooperation agreement with the American aircraft manufacturer, which will benefit from the experience gained at the university in the field of cyber: “The number of attacks in the last year increased by 600% compared to the year before it. That’s a lot. When we get on a flight, we want it to be safe.”

Prof. Bloomberg mentioned the cyber attack that paralyzed entire systems in global aviation about a year ago: “Not all defenses deal with the protection of airplanes. Last year, the entire boarding pass production system was attacked, which greatly affected air traffic. It started at the Collins Aerospace company, and continued from there to many airports in Europe, which had to disable some of the systems. It has a very big and big impact.”

Sources involved in the field say that one must first recognize the vulnerability of the systems, in order to prepare in advance for the possibility of an attack and identify it at an early stage: “It’s like the human body. Early detection can greatly facilitate the treatment of the problem.”

“This will bring them into the Be’er Sheva ecosystem. I think that the State of Israel cannot be Singapore 2. That is, a city state. Be’er Sheva has an excellent location to create its own ecosystem. There is a train, it is a developing area in many areas, all the IT units, the intelligence and also a certain part of the Air Force come here. In fact, all the technological units will locate their center here.”

“There is almost no payment in cash. This leads to the fact that everyone receives phishing offers for their cell phones, which is very dangerous. And another thing: the last war proved that the space dimension is very important. A lot relies on systems in space and they have been proven to be very important in the MBM (the campaign between the wars).

“Iran has greatly increased the use of missiles. We are protecting them through the air defense system. Arrow 3 is used by systems in space for the benefit of defense. The space dimension is also used not only by Israel to locate missile launchers, but also to create a communication sequence and more, and therefore the space dimension is very significant.”

“It is a tool that is not space infrastructure itself, but it relies on it. All the major industries look at the dimension of space as a new dimension, but the use of the systems there is large. For example, server farms, cellular communications, a company like AST Space Mobile, which makes cellular communications through satellites in the smartphones that everyone has. It literally turns them into satellite phones.

“The Spice Pharma company from Herzliya makes ‘biopharma’ in space. They grow skin cells in microgravity conditions. Today they build the company’s satellites themselves. When talking about this field, you can’t ignore Elon Musk’s contribution to space. He greatly reduced the cost of satellite launches. There are also other private companies, but he started it.”

“Netanyahu is talking about the fact that in 10 years we will cut off aid, but we have to understand that it is not just financial aid. The relationship with the United States is super important. We are in a very crowded world and the United States is not the only country that is important to us, aid is not only financial, it is important geopolitically.”