Former general says Israel unprepared for cyber war

The chairman of Israel's Electric Corporation and a former IDF general warned Israel is inadequately prepared to defend itself against growing cyber threats. Speaking at the Zvi Meitar Institute for Land Warfare conference, Yitzhak Ron-Tal said Israel must prepare for the possibility that its enemies have already succeeded in installing viruses inside computer systems that control military and civilian infrastructure. Israel is under threat and could already have experienced a silent infiltration that will be activated when the enemy wants, he declared. Ron-Tal, the former head of the army's Ground Forces said the electric corporation must also be prepared for such a threat and requires intelligence that will enable it to detect infiltrations and know how to minimize the damage caused by such an attack on the Nation's electrical grid.