Re: Pentagon spends over $100 million on cyberattack cleanup

["John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP" <bambenek.infosec () gmail com>]

$100 million is a rounding error to them.

On 4/7/09, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10214416-83.html
>
> Pentagon spends over $100 million on cyberattack cleanup
> by Elinor Mills
>
> "The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the past six months
> cleaning up after Internet attacks and network issues, military leaders
> said on Tuesday.
>
> "The important thing is that we recognize that we are under assault from
> the least sophisticated--what I would say the bored teenager--all the
> way up to the sophisticated nation-state, with some petty criminal
> elements sandwiched in between," Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, head of
> U.S. Strategic Command, told reporters at a cyberspace conference in
> Omaha, Neb., as reported by CBS News.
>
> Neither he nor Army Brigadier Gen. John Davis, deputy commander for
> network operations, would say how much of the estimated $100 million was
> spent cleaning up from viruses compared with outside attacks and
> inadvertent security problems due to U.S. Department of Defense
> employees. However, they did say that spending money to shore up the
> networks to prevent attacks and breaches would be better than paying to
> clean up after an incident.
>
> ..."
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