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The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

In cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to uphold security for one's own country by sacrificing that of others.

Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that's where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it's an epidemic for reasons that make sense.

News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement.