So writes Stephen Walt in an important piece for Foreign Policy, Is the Cyber Threat Overblown?
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The House Intelligence Committee has said it now planned to revive its cyber threat information-sharing bill.
At this week's London conference, delegates were reassured that technology would allow us to adapt to the cyber threat.
Today we can see the cyber threat to the networks upon which so much of our modern American lives depend.
Each of us has an important role to play in reducing the cyber threat and increasing our resilience following cyber incidents.
But it was a sobering reminder that the cyber threat to our nation is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face.
The goal is to close the "big, glaring holes" in the U.S.'s understanding of the nature of the cyber threat against its infrastructure, said one industry specialist familiar with the program.
They even promised a Cyber Threat Assessment Centre (CTAC), which would reputedly be as critical to UK security as JTAC, the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre created by Labour in 2003.
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While the cyber threat is real and something must be done, many think this is the role of Congress, and that unilateral presidential action will violate civil liberties or have unintended consequences.
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Unfortunately, his presentation only added to the ongoing ambiguity surrounding the existence and scale of the supposed cyber threat facing the United States in general, and the Department of Defense (DoD) in particular.
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At the other end of the security scale, Mexico ranked as least prepared to cope with the cyber threat - a situation which is blamed on the country's authorities needing to overwhelmingly focus on the country's gang and drugs problems.
The contradictions between this and previous statements of the threat, both by Alexander and others, combined with continued confusion over the definition of key terms, points once again for the need to more clearly articulate the cyber threat if we are to develop appropriate policy responses.
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However, given current publicity, we wish to assure our customers, employees, shareholders and business partners that ManTech takes seriously recent reports of a cyber threat, and we responsibly and actively address all sources of information about threats to our information and assets and those of our customers.
The government is also strengthening its virtual borders with plans to create a cyber-threat monitoring center.
Statistics gathered for Verizon's annual data breach report suggested state-sponsored hacking attacks were now the number two cyber-threat.
It also offers a range of security services, including managed DNS, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation and cyber-threat reporting.
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Before the debate, the audience voted 24 percent in favor of the motion "The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated, " and 54 percent against, with 22 percent undecided.
Four experts recently gathered to explore both sides of the issue in an Oxford-style debate on the motion "The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated" before an audience at the Newseum in Washington, D.
"The broad language around what constitutes a cyber-security threat leaves the door wide open for abuse, " stated the organisation.
On the cyber-security threat, Blair's written testimony described an inability to contend with attacks using computer networks and telecommunications systems.
The US has demanded a global response to the threat from cyber crime and cyber terrorism.
The threat of cyber leaks or espionage (industrial, state-sponsored or just malicious) is a powerful accelerant to an established underlying trend.
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Business, government and the public must constantly be alert to the level of risk if they are to succeed in detecting and resisting the threat of cyber attack.
America must also face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks.
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From the conventional to the unconventional, from nations seeking weapons of mass destruction to the cell of terrorists planning the next attack, from the old danger of piracy to the new threat of cyber, we must be vigilant.
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The debate, hosted by Intelligences Squared, featured Bruce Schneier, (chief security technology officer with BT) and Marc Rotenberg (executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center) speaking in support of the idea that the threat of cyber war has indeed been exaggerated.
The greatest threat to global cyber security today, according to Internet Security Systems researcher Josh Corman, may be your mother's computer.
In stark contrast, the malicious host threat mitigation approach is both conceptually stronger as well as empirically more robust given its eradication of at a minimum all of the most material threat vectors currently plaguing cyber space (but is admittedly quite new and would benefit from experiential seasoning).
Though the threat of worst-case cyber-doom scenarios seems exaggerated, policymakers must address very serious cybersecurity risks and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities nonetheless.
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