John Arquilla, professor of defense analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, weighs in below. As part of a network of national security specialists, he advised the Obama campaign.
"Our businesses and our armed forces have become completely dependent on our computer networks; that's been obvious for years. Cybercriminals and terrorists are successfully attacking those networks, every second -- that's been clear, too. But the outgoing administration never figured out a coherent strategy for coping with those twin realities. The Obama White House will have to, or risk deeper economic trouble and a potential military catastrophe.
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"Our businesses and our armed forces have become completely dependent on our computer networks; that's been obvious for years. Cybercriminals and terrorists are successfully attacking those networks, every second -- that's been clear, too. But the outgoing administration never figured out a coherent strategy for coping with those twin realities. The Obama White House will have to, or risk deeper economic trouble and a potential military catastrophe.
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