[January 24, 2003]

"The failure of the changeover to the year 2000 on computers to disrupt networks undermined corporate concern about network security. It may take the network equivalent of 9/11 before business gets serious about the problem. In creating security frameworks, government and the private sector have to cooperate. Government doesn’t have the capacity to police the Internet, and the private sector can’t coordinate a solution on its own."

—Alex Mandl, Gemplus CEO
in the session "Cyber Attacks and Society"
at the World Economic Forum in Davos