To that picture, you have to add the entire context of cyber security, or Network and Information Security in the Digital Agenda for Europe.

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Historically, the electric grid lacks these digital gears to ferry information back and forth through a communication network.

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"The Internet revolution meant that we created a global network where any digital entity could connect and exchange information with any other, " he said.

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