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Scaled Back Cybersecuruty
From: <sgorman1 () gmu edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 14:25:00 -0800
This may be of interst: AP: Bush Expected to Sign Scaled Back Internet Security Plan Washington, DC -- A new Bush administration plan aimed at improving the security of key U.S. computer networks will not be as ambitious as previously indicated, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. The plan is being closely watched by network security firms in the DC area. A draft of the proposal, called the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, obtained by the AP contains only 49 of the 86 initiatives of an earlier version, eliminating such mandates as regular consultations with privacy experts about civil liberties and a call for corporations to improve cybersecurity. Instead, it focuses on the security of federal agencies; it also makes clear that the Defense Department can engage in "cyber warfare" should the U.S. be attacked. The job of improving Internet security, however, would be handled by the new Homeland Security Department, which would launch test attacks against various agencies and seek to improve automated systems that operate water, chemical and electrical networks. Bush is expected to sign the plan in the coming weeks. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18662-2003Jan6.html
Current thread:
- Scaled Back Cybersecuruty sgorman1 (Jan 07)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Pete Kruckenberg (Jan 08)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Paul Vixie (Jan 08)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Kelly J. Cooper (Jan 14)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Paul Vixie (Jan 08)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Avi Freedman (Jan 14)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Martin Hannigan (Jan 14)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Pete Kruckenberg (Jan 14)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Paul Vixie (Jan 14)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Christopher L. Morrow (Jan 14)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Andy Dills (Jan 14)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Martin Hannigan (Jan 14)
- Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty Pete Kruckenberg (Jan 08)