Obama moves to defend infrastructure from cyberattacks
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 13, 2013 13:19
Warning that cyberattacks pose a danger to US security, President Barack Obama signed an executive order designed to better protect critical infrastructure from computer hackers.
Obama, in his annual State of the Union speech to a joint session of the US Congress, said the United States is facing a “rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks.”
“We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private email,” he said. “We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.
“Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, and our air traffic control systems,” Obama said.
“We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy.”
Obama said his executive order would “strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy.”
The president also urged Congress to pass legislation “to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks.”
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