Either way, evidence that corporate behemoths are stifling creativity in the cyber world is difficult to find.
It is early in the Cyber World War.
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And Israel's critical electricity and financial grids are among the best secured in the world against cyber attacks that threaten national security, according to a January report by security firm McAfee Inc.
South Korea may lead the world in the business of cyber gaming, but the rest of the world is catching up.
Effectively addressing the complex challenges of cyber security in a globalized world demand that the public debate about cyber security move beyond such framings.
Attribution is a slippery subject in the world of cyber attacks.
And among corporate executives, even those who want to help are wary: How can the business world participate in the government's cyber initiative, they ask, if the government remains intensely secretive?
Hewlett-Packard, the current incumbent, is one of the largest information technology companies in the world, and it understand things like cyber security far better than the military ever will.
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Just 12.2mm slim (measurement excludes lens cover), which is smaller than the thickness of a standard AA-size battery, the Cyber-shot TX55 is the world's thinnest camera in its class (among cameras with an optical anti-shake function).
The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack in history.
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And World Cyber Games held competitions in the newly opened Hall 10 at the convention center.
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However, sophisticated cyber attacks can be launched from anywhere in the world, and cover their tracks by using remote servers.
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His reasoning is simple: the cyber domain is just like the real world, and in the real world we have treaties and oversight agencies to monitor adherence to them.
While the nature of this threat landscape is uncertain, the potential damage a cyber-attack could pose to our internet-dependent telecommunications, power and even water infrastructure, has seen cyber security rise sharply up government agendas around the world in the last five years.
The great thing about collecting these mini-pots of gold is, even though you should continue to request them of both current and past clients, the ones you get can live on forever in our ever-present cyber-world.
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"The new Cyber-shot RX1 is truly 'one of a kind', offering a unique combination of size and performance that's never before been realized in the world of digital cameras, " said Yosuke Tomoda, director of the Cyber-shot camera business at Sony Electronics.
Well the effects of globalisation and our interdependence with other countries, the new network electronic communications means that we're also vulnerable in other ways - cyber attack bringing down the networks, pandemics, influenza, the First World War, DNA's now on the Internet, energy policy - all of these bring insecurities and potential threats to our country quite apart from...
Despite the difficulty of tracing sources of cyber-invasions, the broad consensus of the world community believes much of it originates in China.
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The center was set up after Estonia, one of the world's most connected countries, fell under cyber-siege for four days in 2007, with concerted attacks on the country's banks, media and political institutions.
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