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The boss of the worlds greatest security company alleged the Stuxnet virus that aimed Iranian industrial facilities last year added up as no big surprise. Just Enrique Salem of Symantec admitted the power of the worm comprised unprecedented. Addressing to a small group of newsmen after his keynote address to the worlds greatest security conference, he said as much as we have been planning and preparing for an attack like Stuxnet, what we checked was a different level of sophistication. What we had been anticipating was an
attack on critical infrastructure - besides someone flying across and dropping a bomb they would apply cyber warfare to do the attack. Salem told the RSA event the worm affected a half a MB of code with the
ability to disenable the kill switch. The security boss also discovered that talk of such an attack was raised at a panel he accompanied five years ago with a senior executive from the Department of Homeland Security.
He said it is not a issue of ifbut when and how often our critical infrastructure will be attacked.
Microsofts head of trusty computing Scott Charney agreed. For folks acting in the field for a
long time, the idea of aimed malware in an interlinked world are barely storming. The move from the theoretical to the actual is one that has frequently been talked about. Salem also added that the day Stuxnet
was brought out was the day the world of cyber espionage altered forever to one of cyber counteract. That date was July 13, 2010. Being capable to demolish physical property is a actual threat. What it produces is a starting point for other attackers. Salem aimed to the recent efforts to compromise the computer systems of the company that runs the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations stock exchange as evidence of how the threat landscape has altered and what the future appears as if. The trouble now are that the attackers arent saying I am chasing after all companies in New York. Theyre saying we are chasing after an particular aim, in that case the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. They can comprise very strategical in their attack. As a answer Salem aforesaid new technology and fresh approaches are called for. I run the biggest security company in the world. I get up and people allege I have a vested concern (in pushing this line). Merely my job is to protect and allow security and as we say critical infrastructure is under attack, its actual. Strategic steps Salem mapped out a number of strategic steps that need to comprise taken to guard against the next major cyber attack. They include an early warning arrangement,
better intelligence activity on what attacks could happen, better protection, the ability to anticipate what any threat could look like and the ability to clean up after an attack. He as well directed to a role for government
that could involve a counter attack or strike.The idea of a kill switch to grant the government to switch off the internet whenever its under fire is one he didnt seem excessively enthusiastic about. The power for us to act something off like that and not cause other massive disruption would be very arduous. We are becoming increasingly dependent on the internet. There are better approaches than attempting to close off the internet. When I was in the anti-spam business we had to be sure the cure was not worse than the problem. We have to
have better soutions than barely becoming it (the Internet) off but occasionally you have to go to extremes.
