Prominent cyber attacks in recent years illustrate how massive the security
breaches can be. The consumer records of more than 100 million visitors
to Sony websites was stolen in 2011. The Stuxnet virus compromised Iran’s
nuclear centrifuges. More recently, attacks on major media websites in
the United States have helped change the attitude of affected parties from
containing the damage to their reputations to engaging in a dialogue on
cyber security. The need for cyber security will only grow as trillions of bytes
of consumer data join business and government data as profitable targets for
criminals and terrorists.