We need to establish deterrents in cyber space.
We are building our own offensive cyber capability.
He also said that the stakes could hardly be higher.
However, Osborne said that the decision to boost cyber defence funding had been taken before the attacks.
ISISs murderous brutality has a strong digital element.
ISIS are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes; for radicalization, for operational planning too.
They have not been able to use it to kill people yet by attacking our infrastructure through cyber attack.
But we know they want it and are doing their best to build it.
The governments total spending on cyber security will rise to 3.2 billion despite cuts to other spending.
Osborne defended the expenditure ahead of an expected announcement of fresh overall spending cuts next week.
It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm.
We will defend ourselves and we will also take the fight to you, he said.
Impunity no longer exists.
source: www.techworm.net
