11/9/2010 3:53:05 PM
IT Security news: Government to detail cyber threat POA
The government will bring the cyber threat topic to the fore
again when Ministers speak to Think Tank Chatham House.
The thrust of the speech will be that a rogue laptop could be as
deadly as a cruise missile. Ministers view cyber warfare as the
UK's biggest emerging threat, a 'Tier One' threat. The government
will spend A £650mio over the next four years on a programme that
will seek to protect both individuals and the national
infrastructure.
Defence Minister Nick Harvey spoke to the BBC and said:
"it is imperative that in the future the
nation must win the battle in cyberspace as well as the battle on
the ground."
I recently blogged on GCHQ's report that 1,000 malicious emails
a month were hitting government networks and that the threat to the
nations critical infrastructure, power grids, emergency services,
utilities, were a 'real and credible' target.
We shouldn't treat this news as a dark shadow over our lives, in
reality it has little or no impact on us mere mortals, but I'm sure
anyone who is remotely IT literate can scale up the malware that
hits your home PC in order to understand the threat that would
exist at national level.
Damian Hicklin
IT
Security & Communications Manager
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