Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system(Einstein 3.0)

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:55 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:13:08 EDT, "Steven M. Bellovin" said:
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> > > Right.  The US government is a *huge* operation.  Suppose you were  
> > > the
> > > CIO or the CSO for the US government (excluding the classified  
> > > stuff)
> > > -- what is the proper cybersecurity strategy?

Step 0. DON"T PANIC.

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> > Step 1: Figure out what I actually *have* already.
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> Step 2: Baseline your traffic patterns/usage.
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> - - ferg
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> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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