The pervasiveness of information and the pace of technological change are utterly transforming the character of warfare in the 21st Century, and the cyber security industry has earned a seat at the table alongside the army, navy and air force, according to General Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff.
Carter, who served in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and succeeded Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach as head of Britain’s armed services 18 months ago, was delivering an annual lecture to the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi).
In his speech, Carter highlighted the rapid deterioration of international stability in the past 12 months, and said global geopolitics was returning to an era of great power competition and conflict, akin to the environment of the early 1900s that led Europe inevitably towards the First World War.
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Source: ComputerWeekly.com