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DHS Doesn't Take Cyberattack Threats Seriously
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 00:50:20 GMT
Via FCW.com. [snip] The United States and the Homeland Security Department are manifestly and woefully unprepared for a cyberattack, the former DHS inspector general said. Al Qaeda is training people and focusing on launching cyberattacks, but DHS has failed to make this a priority, said Clark Ervin, the director of the Aspen Institutes Homeland Security Initiative and former DHS IG, speaking at the American Council for Technology's Management of Change conference here. DHS is on its fifth cybersecurity leader. That is an indication of the departments lack of focus on this issue, he said, and it is an illustration of how unprepared the agency is to serve as a model for how cybersecurity should be handled. Ervin, who has written a book, Open Target: Where America Is Vulnerable to Attack, said terrorists are keenly aware of where the countrys weaknesses are and will work to take advantage of those weaknesses. [snip] More: http://www.fcw.com/article94792-06-06-06-Web - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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