Cyber - the 21~st Century Threat

摘要

When the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked in September 2001, just over 500 million of the population of Planet Earth used the Internet - then about 8% of the global population. Today that figures approaches three billion, or more than 40%. In between these two points in time lie a series of attacks on society and commerce launched from the cyber domain - some real, some imagined - and a growing sense of unease that the next 'Big One' in terms of state- or criminally-inspired cyber terrorism may be a game changer, in that it may lead to catastrophic results that could require weeks, months or even years to mitigate.