Cyberwar is changing, and network defense must adapt, two leading executives told a military audience at the Air Force Information Technology Conference at Auburn University's Montgomery campus earlier this month.

"We are at a much more dangerous place today than we were four or five years ago," said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive officer. The perpetrators of cyberattacks have shifted in recent years from amateur hackers seeking notoriety to organized criminal enterprises with financial or hostile goals, he said.

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