WASHINGTON -- Increasingly sophisticated and global cyberthreats along with unrelenting technology advances highlight the need for better cyberthreat intelligence, a former U.S. national security advisor told an industry summit today.

"We're now in a state of rising fear," warned Greg Rattray, CEO of Delta Risk, a cybersecurity consulting firm. "The neighborhood is getting tough." Rattray is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel who served as director of cybersecurity on the National Security Council during the second Bush administration.

Rattray, the keynote speaker at the