U.S.Government Falling Short On Cyber Crime

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via SearchSecurity.com.

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The federal government is falling farther and farther behind its fight
against cybercrime and, despite an increase in the amount of resources
being allocated to address the problem, it will continue to struggle
without a lot of help from law enforcement agencies at the state, local and
international levels, current and former government security officials say.

Currently, the vast majority of the work being done on cybercrime and
national computer security issues is done at the federal level by agencies
as diverse as the FBI, Treasury Department, Department of Homeland Security
and Department of State. And while these agencies all have teams of highly
trained security professionals, the sheer volume of investigations that
they're asked either to run or assist with far outweighs the amount of
time, money and personnel available.

Jerry Dixon, former executive director of the National Cyber Security
Division at DHS and current vice president for government relations for
Infragard's National Member Alliance, said in a keynote speech at the Black
Hat D.C. conference here Wednesday that the only way to help stem this tide
is with a big shift in the way that lower-level law enforcement agencies
deal with computer security cases.

"We need more trained law enforcement personnel at the state and local
level," he said. "The feds are swamped. We need a tiered approach."

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More:
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1301560
,00.html

Note: For what its worth, this is a very similar message that I
was trying to get across at NANOG yesterday:

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg06229.html

- - ferg

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