Govt-to-govt cooperation now crucial in fighting cyber threats

AT a major security conference in Singapore last week, Amit Yoran, president of network security provider RSA, said that cyber security was no longer a technology problem but rather a mindset problem. The cyber security landscape has changed and business and society must change too if they are to have any hope of anticipating and tackling the threats that are increasingly today's norm.

Mr Yoran, who is a graduate of the US Military Academy and one of the founding members of the US Department of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team, was making the point that traditional approaches to cyber security don't work any more. This includes individual count…