US Deputy Defence Secretary William Lynn warned at the end of a two-day visit to Brussels that the cyber threat was 'maturing' from an espionage and disruption tool to a destructive force against vital infrastructure.
'I think the discussion for NATO at this point, the threshold step is we need to be able to protect our own military networks, and frankly we're not there yet,' Lynn told journalists after meetings with European Union and NATO officials as well as the private sector."
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US Cyber Defense in Place
The US military is preparing for 21st Century electronic warfare and cyber terrorism. A joint US Cyber Command and four service cyber commands have been set up.
Their mission is to defend American military networks and civilian American infrastructure from cyber terrorism and from foreign government hackers.
The officers leading these cyber commands explain how they are organized, how they operate, and how they will protect the United States from foreign military hackers, intelligence agencies, and cyber terrorists.
Learn more at http://www.teamultimedia.com/cyber-defense.html
