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U.S. Dept. of Energy Cyber Security Slammed
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:08:25 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via UPI. [snip] Cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Energy, which guards the nation's most important scientific secrets, is hampered by conflicting and overlapping roles. A report by Energy Inspector General Gregory Friedman says that "as many as eight independent cyber security intrusion and analysis organizations" were at work in the department, reporting to either "program elements" or "facility contractors." Their "missions and functions we found to be, at least partially, duplicative and not well coordinated," reads the report, released Friday. The eight organizations lacked "a common incident reporting format and did not always ensure that essential attack-related information needed for investigative or trending purposes was reported or retained," Friedman found. [snip] More: http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2008/01 /28/dept_of_energy_cybersecurity_slammed/8441/ Last week: http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45724-1.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHnpimq1pz9mNUZTMRAqGDAKCXJzQ8fJrLP9vtk9zQWrD3/SSlpgCfRKkk RJMhS+OCzCxpkRQJnzRdBJk= =YQ7l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.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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