Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Opening address at Munich Security Conference Cyber 31 January 2014
When the MSC for the first time discussed cyber security in 2011 the President of a small European country stood up and said: "this is the first time, but I assure you, it won't be the last". That was a mere three years ago. Two weeks ago, in a poll of senior employees within the White House, Pentagon, Congress and the defense industry, forty-five percent of respondents named a cyber attack as the single greatest threat to the US. This was nearly 20 percentage points above terrorism, which ranked second at 26%. No doubt a poll of senior officials in the Alliance or in the EU today would yield similar results.
- TOOMAS HENDRIK ILVES, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA
- International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence
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