Ex-Nato chief: Business systems vulnerable to attack

Summary: Lord George Robertson, former defence minister and Nato chief, advises businesses to run exercises to see how they would respond to cyberattack

By Tom Espiner | November 27, 2008 -- 16:44 GMT (08:44 PST)

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To mitigate the effects of cybercrime, firms need to do individual exercises to find out how vulnerable they are, according to former defence minister and Nato chief Lord George Robertson.

Topic: Security

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