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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2009. LC Number: KF27.5 .I5 2009 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)698370386 Subject: Intelligence service -- United States. Excerpt: ... 13 Let me finish with the long-term challenges of environmental se-curity and the threats to our information technology infrastructure. Adding more than a billion people to the world population by 2025 will put pressure on clean energy sources and on water sup-plies. Most of the world's population will move from rural to urban areas, seeking economic opportunity; and many, particularly in Asia, will achieve advanced lifestyles with greater per capita con-sumption and generation of pollution. According to the U.N. ' s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, physical affects of climate change will worsen in coming years. Multilateral policymaking on climate change is likely to be substantial and a growing priority within traditional security af-fairs. The world sees the United States in a pivotal leadership role. As effects of climate change mount, the U.S. will come under increas-ing pressure to help the international community set goals for mis-sion reductions and to help others through technological progress. Finally, threats to our information technology infrastructure are an important Intelligence Community focus. Our information infra-structure is becoming both indispensable to the functioning of our society and vulnerable to catastrophic disruption in the way that previous analog decentralized systems were not. Cyber systems are being targeted for exploitation and potentially for destruction or disruption by a growing array of both nonstate and state adver-saries. Network defense technologies are widely available to mitigate threats but have not been uniformly adopted. A number of nations, including Russia and China, can disrupt elements of the U.S. infor-mation structure. We must take protective measures to detect and prevent intrusions before they do significant damage. We must rec-o
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