Increasing public awareness of cybersecurity has shown that the former CIA official

The two researchers in black and white safety hat, the hat today, former director of operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, I get a pain warning: now an opportunity for the government to raise awareness of cyber security paradigm that has never been a higher level of national defense is structured to include threats to cybersecurity.

In a speech at the Black Hat conference in 2011, Cofer Black called the government's security community to educate and influence decision makers, most of them ignore the threat posed by cyber criminals to attack and perform in the country where a large online businesses, government agencies and for the defense industry.

"Today is very useful for policy makers on issues such as," Black said. "This is a very big," he said.

Black was the government's ongoing threat assessments, cyber attacks with biological and kinetic, said it was an important place among the different categories. In comparison, during the Cold War, intelligence agencies, bacteriological, radiological and nuclear in the past to highlight the possible chemical attack, highlight it and then, he said.

Black spent 28 years working for the CIA Counterterrorist Center and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the institution in 1999 was appointed director of the against-terrorism coordinator. If the Cold War, the threat of terrorism, we saw the emergence of online attacks, and now threatens industry and national security. He warned that existing signs and the possibility of physical attacks, to discuss the kinetics may be accompanied by a severe cut.

"I am here to say that the attack Stuxnet Rubicon future," says Black. "I can not say to understand how it was executed, but the important point to realize this is expensive, which means that, including a nation-state. Another important point is that the physical destruction of national resources in the world can cause things to happen. This is very important. "

Responses to cyber attacks, but because the origin of the attacks and the lack of international coordination in such cases is difficult to dispute the survey.

"Cyber ​​against nations or terrorist groups is an important component of a future conflict," said Black. "You can hear the problem. Makers to understand the threats that were never experienced in person, but I do not think."

Black open in New York and Washington, the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks coming little more than a month. Black collected and what is happening today on cybersecurity drew parallels between the pre-9/11 information.

Years and months before Sept. 11, Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden Black producers decided to self-denial, there were a terrorist organization and a financier of terrorism, but remember to see the leader as more than one initiator. Al-Qaeda threat has been labeled in some government circles and the press exaggerated. It also attacks the U.S. embassy in 1998, including the escalation of the situation and attack Americans abroad remain in Tanzania and Kenya and against the USS Cole in October 2000.

Black Bush administration and the Clinton administration would be the greatest threat of terrorism from its board the power transmission points. However, the dark, but no personal experience, he said, and downplayed the threat verification. In summer 2001, the volume of close to a major attack on U.S. policymakers informed and continues to grow, "the fight" was advised to go to, but Black said there were delays in action because the threat had not yet been validated.

"Personally, I had difficulty in the minds of men the things that are not suitable," says Black.

Drawback is that the defense industry and the constant attacks carried out against other high-level goals may be similar before the 9 / 11 for the period.

"Threat to the validation came into the world," said Kelly. "There is an analogy with the world and the world situation; this technology can be much more difficult."