European Center addresses cyber security.

Major General (Ret.) Dr. Horst Schmalfeld, Deputy Director of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, opened the four-day conference in Garmisch, Germany last month by telling approximately 0 participants that cyber security is among the most important security issues facing society today.

The Cyber Security, Dimensions of Critical Infrastructure Protection conference is sponsored by the Marshall Center in collaboration with the U.S. European Command and the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Newtworks and Information Integration. Dr. Horst Schmalfeld said, "Clearly, these issues are not a single nation's problem or responsibility. We must all work together."

Keynote speaker Major General (Ret.) Dave Bryan, vice President, Northrop-Grumman, expanded on that theme when he told participants that the information age everything is controlled by computer. "Every aspect of our lives, personal, business, and government has been changed by the information revolution. Bank accounts, health records, stock exchanges, power grids, government, the military, and the list goes on, are all controlled by networked computers."