She proposed a round-the-clock cyber-crime network, along with the regional computer forensic labs and a secure on-line clearinghouse for law enforcement to share information about cyber-cases.

CNN: Government sees cyber-attacks as disruption of commerce

Questions regarding those who are ultimately responsible for this cyber-espionage network remain unanswered.

FORBES: Shadows In The Cloud

Arcsight sells security information and event management (SIEM) software, a subset of enterprise security devoted to logging and analyzing behavior on a corporate network to find and prevent cyber-threats.

FORBES: HP Acquires Arcsight In Ongoing Security Shopping Spree

Network owners must invest in and maintain up-to-date cyber protections for their information and systems.

WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories

The White House has confirmed it was the target of a cyber-attack but says the breach hit an unclassified network.

BBC: The White House as seen on 17 March 2010

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...

BBC: John Reid MP, Former Cabinet Minister

In addition to a regional virtual library network to which universities will be linked, the project will set up a cyber institute giving professors on-line access to training courses.

UNESCO: Education

Section 249 authorizes the President to declare a state of cyber emergency if critical infrastructure (CI) is deemed to be in serious jeopardy of a network-based attack and institute emergency measures to protect it.

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