POLICY: July 2010 Archives

FBI report to the Senate Judiciary Committee...

READ MORE:  FBI Press Release

Two articles in The Economist of interest ...

War in the fifth domain:  Are the mouse and keyboard the new weapons of conflict?

Cyberwar:  It is time for countries to start talking about arms control on the internet

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended that the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) tackle key obstacles, including the lack of a national R&D agenda, weak leadership, and little R&D information sharing, in cybersecurity R&D through its Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development.  READ MORE

GAO Report

The federal government is reportedly launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants.  The program would rely on a set of cyber sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity suggesting an impending cyber attack, though it wouldn't persistently monitor the whole system.  READ MORE

Another viewpoint ... Securing critical infrastructure against cyber attack impractical ... READ MORE

Follow-up ... NSA Denies it will monitor U.S. utilities, READ MORE

Leading lawmakers have sent a letter to the President signaling their commitment to strengthening national cycbersecurity.

The senators write that the government, industry and private citizens remain vulnerable to many cyber threats, including:

    * Loss of vital intelligence
    * Loss of intellectual property
    * Identity theft and other cyber crimes
    * Debilitation of critical infrastructure
    * Degradation of communications
    * Insecure financial transactions

READ MORE

VIEW LETTER