The Thorny Cyberterror Debate

Really interesting comparison of points of view on cyber security.  I wonder where the truth lies?  On one hand we have the head of New York State’s Department of Financial Services, who released a statement yesterday describing cyberspace as fertile terrain for the next, massive 9/11-style event, going so far as to reference his fears of an “Armageddon-type cyber event,”.  On the other side we have the Bipartisan Policy Center which does not discount the threat, but takes a more nuanced approach and wonders whether at this point terrorist groups continue to achieve the same effects more cheaply and easily with conventional attacks than they can elicit through a pivot towards cyber attacks.