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Cyber Security: A Transatlantic Perspective
11/05/2010
Author : Security & Defence Agenda (SDA - Belgium)
A Security & Defence Agenda Report
 
Cyber-warfare is now firmly on the international security agenda.

The dangers range from denial of service attacks that cripple computer networks, to espionage incursions enabling foreign powers to download confidential documents, or the risk that hackers can gain long-distance control over critical infrastructure like power grids, water supply or even weapons systems.

Many in the military now view cyber-space as a new theatre of operations alongside land, sea, air and space, a trend that was underscored by the creation last year of the new U.S. Cyber Command to coordinate America’s computer network defences.

Fifty-four percent of IT and security experts taking part in an international survey last year reported suffering largescale denial of service attacks by a high level adversary such as organized crime, terrorists or nation state. A similar proportion said they had been subjected to “stealthy infiltration” by high-level hackers and 59 percent said they believed foreign governments had been involved in such attacks or infiltrations, according to the survey by the California-based computer security company McAfee which interviewed 600 experts from 14 countries around the world.

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