silicon.com - The internet is not reliable or secure enough to cope with the load we are putting on it, according to President Obama's cyber security advisor.
The global digital infrastructure is "neither secure enough nor resilient enough for what we use it for today", which means fixing it is one of the biggest economic and national security problems of the 21st century, according to Melissa Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils.
Hathaway has been leading President Obama's 60-day cyberspace policy review, which was completed last week.
Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Hathaway said there have been "countless intrusions" which have allowed criminals to steal millions and spies to pilfer intellectual property and other secrets, citing the example of when 130 ATMs around the world were secretly emptied in a single 30-minute period.
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