A journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle attended a dinner hosted by Hewlett Packard last week in Silicon Valley: "the mood was decidedly grim". The company is facing increasing pressure from regulators and politicians to explain its role in helping China build up its surveillance state. Another described the issues of cyber-risk to US infrastructure as a slow-moving train wreck. An HP report cites 57% of US CEO's as having no training as to what to do in the aftermath of a cyber-attack, and 70% of them blieve that their companies only partly understand the implications of an attack.
A journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle attended a dinner hosted by Hewlett Packard last week in Silicon Valley: "the mood was decidedly grim". "By 2020 the US will be hit with an earthquake of a cyber-attack that will cripple banks, stock exchanges, power plants and communications", an executive from Hewlett-Packard predicted. Another described the issues of cyber-risk to US infrastructure as a slow-moving train wreck. An HP report cites 57% of US CEO's as having no training as to what to do in the aftermath of a cyber-attack, and 70% of them blieve that their companies only partly understand the implications of an attack.