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White House: cybersecurity facing a Sputnik moment - Ars Technica
The Obama administration has sent a number of signals that it takes the
information infrastructure of the nation seriously, having approved
stimulus money for broadband and established a post for a national CTO.
In parallel with these actions, the administration authorized a review
of the national cybersecurity policy, and that review is now complete.
Depending on how you read the resulting report, it concluded either that
we don't have a cybersecurity policy, or that we have too many of them;
in either case, its authors have made a number of very specific
suggestions as to how to improve the situation.
The report is fairly blunt, stating early on that "the architecture of
the Nation’s digital infrastructure, based largely upon the Internet, is
not secure or resilient." As our network infrastructure has developed,
the focus has been on things like performance, ease-of-use, and
compatibility, and security consciousness was pretty low for much of its
history. So, it's not a surprise that both government and private
computer systems have been victimized, and evidence suggests that both
private parties and foreign governments have been behind these attacks.
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Posted by: Peter - 11:51 PM MDT
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