DHS Doesn't Take Cyberattack Threats Seriously

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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 Institute’s 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 department’s 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 country’s weaknesses are and will work to take advantage of those weaknesses.

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More:
http://www.fcw.com/article94792-06-06-06-Web

- ferg


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