Haydn Rees

Eindhoven

Technical Analyst

Y2K = "if it can go wrong, it might go wrong."
Cyber-terrorism = "if it can make it go wrong, we will".

Government Services and Banks can mess up and apologise.

Infrastructural attacks hit things you take for granted. Railway signals & points, high volume gas distribution networks (valves), and water distribution and flood control systems, Power Station Management System (including nuclear), Air Traffic Control System, Instrument Landing Systems, Navigation Systems on Oil Tankers (Superman III), Supermarket Supply Chain Management Systems, Traffic Management Systems, Mobile Phone Networks, Sewage and Waste Management Systems... All controlled over the Internet.

The only way to have a large enough population of Security Specialists to deal with this is to use the private sector, and we'd need at least three years "run up" to get the necessary expertise and qualification set up and in place.

What we need immediately is strong Criminal law, demanding every company assess it's vulnerabilities and have regular security due diligence, with Company Directors going to prison if they don't.