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As they grapple with a growing crop of increasingly sophisticated threats that know no political borders, nations must dramatically improve their framework for coordinating on cybersecurity policy and preventing and responding to attacks, according to a new study sponsored by security software vendor McAfee.
McAfee commissioned the Security and Defense Agenda (SDA), a prominent think tank based in Brussels, to canvas global leaders and cybersecurity experts for the report entitled, "Cybersecurity: The Vexed Question of Global Rules," released at an event here on Monday.
The authors of the report emphasized the need for sharing information about threats in real time, both among nations around the globe and between the public and private sectors in any given country.
Some 57 percent of the leaders and experts polled said they believe the world is in the midst of a cyber arms race, and 36 percent said that cybersecurity should rank as a higher priority than missile defense programs.
Those findings underscore the new reality that cyber operations, both offensive and defensive, play an increasingly central role in virtually every modern military and intelligence operation, even if the sort of full-on electronic warfare that could knock out a regional electric grid or telecommunications system has yet to transpire.
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