U.S. Government officials and business leaders from around the world will begin a three-day meeting in Texas on Monday to discuss cyber security. The Worldwide Cyber security Summit, hosted by the East West Institute (EWI), opens in Dallas and will feature discussions on ways to protect the world's digital infrastructure from electronic threats. Among those scheduled to address the gathering, being held in the wake of sophisticated cyber attacks on Google which the Internet giant said originated in China, are U.S. President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor James Jones and White House cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt. The EWI, a non-partisan think tank, is bringing together 400 government officials, business leaders and cyber security experts from China, France, Germany, India, Russia, the United States and nearly three dozen other countries to "map the dangers and areas of cooperation" in cyberspace. "The skyrocketing severity and frequency of cyber attacks against businesses, governments and other institutions globally pose an ominous threat to the stability of the international economy and peace itself," according to the EWI. "Nations have well established rules of the game on land, sea, air and in outer space," it said. "There is a significant lack of such rules in the fifth common domain-cyberspace." Ahead of the meeting, the EWI and Public Strategies conducted a survey of government officials, business leaders and cyber security experts on their perception of the dangers in cyberspace.
