
Even in the wake of near-disastrous data breaches of its own personnel records, and some of the largest corporations in the country, the U.S. government is woefully unprepared to detect and defend against cyber attacks, according to cyber security experts who gathered July 20 to debate issues of free-information flow.“One of the things we have come to realize with cyber security is that this is a 21st century problem and we are operating with 19th- and 20th-century mechanisms to deal…