By Lawrence D. Dietz, Managing Director, Information Security & Legal Support Services, Tal Global Corporation

(Editor’s note: The opinions and copyright for this guest posting belong to Tal Global Corporation)

 This bulletin is part of our continuing effort to provide information and analysis to our clients and colleagues. Recently, tiny Estonia with an estimated population of slightly over 1 million has learned that productivity and connectivity on the Internet comes with the vulnerability borne of dependence. Estonia began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Russian soldier from a park in Tallinn. As a result they have been engaged in what some, like the New York Times are calling the “first war in cyberspace”. For the past several weeks the country has been defending itself from a barrage of apparently sophisticated and coordinated cyber attacks. Linton Wells II, the US DOD Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and information integration was quoted as saying “This may well turn out to be a watershed in terms of widespread awareness of the vulnerability of modern society.”

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