PCWorld - In an election season dominated by concerns over the economyand the war in Iraq, cybersecurity hasn't exactly been a top issue for the candidates or voters.
But it's a topic the next administration will need to focus on -- and as a high priority, according to several tech industry representatives, including two former officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and a former White House cybersecurity czar.
Driving that urgency: the growing danger of cyberattacks against critical networks and systems that run the financial services and energy sectors, as well as those used by the government and the military. Those attacks could come from opportunistic nation-states as well as from criminal adversaries, they said.
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