Small countries' cybersecurity concerns (video)

Estonian President Toomas Hendrick Ilves addresses European conference on critical information infrastructure protection

A small country faces the threat of cyber-attacks

In 2007, the former Soviet Republic of Estonia suffered a massive electronic attack on its Internet-connected computer systems. During last year's brief Russia - Georgia war over South Ossetia, websites were among the military targets. The cordon that China has thrown around events in Tibet is electronic as well as physical. The Panama News was shut down for a few days awhile back as the indirect result of an electronic attack that most probably originated here but came to our web server at the time by way of China. The front page of La Estrella's online edition was recently defaced by a hacker pretending to come from Turkey, but more likely by or at the behest of English-speaking criminals here.

So is Panama prepared to defend its canal, its power grid, its banking system and its governmental offices from electronic warfare?

The following is a three-part video of a speech by Estonian President Ilves at a European Union conference on the cyber-security issue.

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