Obama unveils 'cyber czar' role

Barack Obama, the US president, is to appoint a "cyber czar' in a bid to combat growing threats to the nation's private and government computer networks.The US president said on Friday that the co-ordinator, who has not yet been named, would work with various government offices to protect their networks and others such as air traffic control and the US stock exchange.Obama also said the US had to provide the education required to keep pace with technology and attract and retain a cyber-savvy work force, and called for a new education campaign to raise awareness of cyber security threats."Cyberspace is real and so are the risks that come with it. It is the great irony of our information age [that] the very technologies that empower us to create and to build also empower those who would disrupt and destroy," he said.