article_snippet: The eleventh director of Mossad, Tamir Pardo, pictured, determined that Israel would use a cyber unit to avoid experiencing an event similar to the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 .
article_snippet: Electronic war: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel's electronic battles against cyberattacks were regarded as Israel's most important defense .
article_snippet: By working with each other in unison, intelligence agencies hope to  prevent future attacks.
article_snippet: Cyber units worldwide are becoming increasingly important in the fight against terror.
article_snippet: The eleventh director of Israel's spy agency, Tamir Pardo, was determined that Israel would not experience an event similar to the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001.
article_snippet: Tamir Pardo understood the importance of cyberwarfare after undergoing training at the NSA.
article_snippet: Tamir Pardo was backed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who told Tamir Pardo that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon electronic battles against cyberattacks were regarded as Israel's most important defense.
article_snippet: Tamir Pardo identified the attacks were mostly coming from the Tenth Bureau, the highly secret department of China's People Liberation Army responsible for science and technology.
article_snippet: In the United States, General Keith B. Alexander, the head of the Pentagon's Cyber Command, confirmed that 'our targets are enemy military command centers that we can reach from cyberspace.'
highlights_snippet: Intelligence agencies in Israel, the UK and U.S. are collaborating in a joint effort against cyber crime .
  