An IP reputation service, once the NASDAQ site had been identified as compromised through either publication or detection by continual IPS reputation evaluation, would have given system administrators early warning of the attack.

FORBES: How reputation services enhance IPS

The US is establishing a sophisticated computer system to provide early warning of a bio-terror attack on the country, it is reported.

BBC: Early warning system for bio-terror

The group (whose UK co-chair is the former Defence and Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind) also argues that removing them from combat bases would greatly increase early warning and decision time, and therefore reduce any remaining concern of a sudden nuclear attack.

BBC: Tactical nuclear weapons 'are an anachronism'