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The comments came during a media round-table session at the Gartner Symposium and IT Expo, which began today in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n
The director, Rich Mogull, told journalists that despite the incidence of high profile digital attacks, cyber terrorism is a phenomenon that has never occurred.<\/p>\n
Even though there were examples of attacks that have physical consequences – they could not be described as terrorist acts, Mogull explained.<\/p>\n
Mogull maintains the argument is largely academic – it doesn’t matter who’s attacking an organisation, it should be doing the best it can to protect itself in the first place, whether attacks are coming from criminals or “cyber terrorists”.<\/p>\n
Let’s look at protecting ourselves by closing the vulnerabilities we know exist, and protecting ourselves from the attacks that we know exist,” he said.<\/p>\n
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