Global security experts gathered in Malaysia last month to help ramp up the world?s defenses against cyber-terrorismDubbed by organisers as ?the largest ministerial-level gathering ever organised about cyber-terrorism?, the World Cyber Security Summit (WCSS), was recenlty held in Malaysia. Hosted by the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism (IMPACT), government representatives from all over the globe including Australia joined private sector and prominent security experts. The summit was chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Dato? Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi with international speakers such as Professor Howard Schmidt, former White House security advisor and former chief security officer at Microsoft and eBay.They were joined by a multitude of security experts including Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure; Dr Paul Twomey, president and chief executive officer of ICANN; Dr Vinton G. Cerf, ?Father of the Internet? and chief Internet evangelist at Google and Eugene Kaspersky, founder and chief executive officer of Kaspersky Lab.

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