“It doesn’t matter how you define cyberwar,” says Amit Yoran

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Source: Michael Cheek, The New New Internet.

At its core, cybersecurity must be dealt with as key international economic issue and not simply a national defense or security one,” Yoran writes. “The impact of misrepresenting or miscalculating risk was felt in the sub-prime market and cascading global financial meltdown. Today’s cybersecurity challenges and implications are more pervasive.”

Instead of concentrating on defining what cyber war is, Yoran writes that it is necessary to act now to secure U.S. networks.

“What does matter, is largely agreed upon – modern society has failed to understand and measure the risks associated with cyber and also to develop and deploy the protections necessary to operate safely online,” he writes. “While definitions matter, the time for action is now.”