Midnight in the War Room | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00It was clear that at that moment in time the Chinese government was a fan of big

00:06data. That they were after all of it. And we suddenly realized that no one was safe.

00:12The Chinese were burrowing deep into some of our most sensitive critical infrastructure.

00:20Water unavailable, trains derailed, comms severed, power going down.

00:25Served as the director of the CIA. Served as the first US national cyber director.

00:32Former director of CISA. Every single day there's a war going on in cyberspace.

00:39Cyber attacks aren't just taking offline computers. You can take out power grids,

00:43poisoning water, food supply chains. This war's been going on a long time.

00:48Countries like North Korea, that are so poor they have to feed their people with grass,

00:53can build a nuclear weapons program based on stolen bitcoin infrastructure. Russia in China,

00:59their goal is to stay just below the threshold of kinetic war.

01:03In a dictatorship you target the dictator. In a democracy you target the people.

01:08Because you don't know anymore who is calling you. You don't know who's emailing you. Because

01:12all of these things can be spoofed or phoked. When you think you're the safest, that's usually when

01:17something is going to go wrong. People are going to die and they'll do it without ever firing a shot.

01:22A threat actor drops ransomware in a hospital. It's real human lives.

01:27Autonomous vehicles that are connected to the internet, smart cities.

01:31Your ring camera, a television, a refrigerator, washer and dryer.

01:36The next war is not going to be on the ground, it's going to be through the wire.

01:40It's easier to be a hacker than it ever has been in the past.

01:44These kids, it's all about notoriety, chaos, disruption.

01:49Global cyber crime damages are estimated to cost the world some 10.5 trillion dollars

01:57by the end of this year.

01:59Of course the money, like you can make 10, 100, even a thousand times what you're going to make

02:04as a cyber security researcher.

02:06We have to be right 100% of the time. The adversaries only have to be right once.

02:11I never thought about the consequences, I just did it.

02:14Well that put me behind bars.

02:16The first thing that as a CISO you're going to hear is how did you let this happen?

02:20This is an unwinnable war.

02:22Who is going to defend us?

02:24Complacency is our biggest risk. The whole of society has a role to play in that.

02:29All that's necessary for the triumph of evil in the world is for good people to do nothing.

02:34This is not fate, it's choice.

02:39You're in the war room at midnight. Something's gone wrong.

02:44But we're not going to stop fighting.