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摘要

As the defence of cyberspace becomes more important than that of land, sea or air, Cold War attitudes towards cyber security must be abandoned. This is the view of experts from De Montfort University (DMU), whose arguments were recently published in Jane's Intelligence Review. Whilst many governments and corporations appreciate the importance of cyber defence - the UK's National Security Strategy treats hostile cyberattacks as seriously as international military crises - the research team warns that the nature of cyber security remains widely misunderstood. In their paper, Dr Tim Watson, Colin Williams and Ian Bryant, from DMU's Cyber Security Centre (CSC), highlight that despite lingering attitudes to the contrary, cyberspace is the direct product of (and will continue to be entirely shaped by) human activity.