On the third day of his visit to China, British prime minister David Cameron stated that he looks to open "a proper dialogue" with the country concerning cyber security.
NTIA, an arm of the Commerce Department, is launching an initiative with the goal of developing a "voluntary, enforceable code of conduct" for commercial use of the technology.
Information security personnel are challenged with protecting company reputation and enterprise and customer data from a constant and expanding barrage of cyber criminals.
Like no other year before it, 2013 illustrated for the entire globe just how essential cyber security is to business endurance, economic durability and personal rights to privacy.
The revelations about government surveillance made public by Edward Snowden have brought urgency and clarity to the work Jennifer Stisa Granick is doing as director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS).