Fwd: [ISN] Pentagon: Let Us Secure Your Network or Face the "Wild Wild West" Internet Alone

[Robert Portvliet <robert.portvliet () gmail com>]

Awesome, now all China needs to do is compromise one system...


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From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:30 AM
Subject: [ISN] Pentagon: Let Us Secure Your Network or Face the "Wild Wild
West" Internet Alone
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/einstein-on-private-networks

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
May 27, 2010

Companies that operate critical infrastructures and do not voluntarily
allow the federal government to install monitoring software on their
networks to detect possible cyberattacks would face the "wild" internet
on their own and place us all at risk, a top Pentagon official seemed to
say Wednesday.

Defense Deputy Secretary William Lynn III, speaking at the Strategic
Command Cyber Symposium in Nebraska, said we need to think imaginatively
about how to use the National Security Agency's Einstein monitoring
systems on critical private-sector networks -- such as those in the
financial, utility and communication industries -- in order to protect
us.

"Operators of critical infrastructure could opt in to a
government-sponsored security regime," Lynn said. Otherwise, "individual
users who do not want to enroll could stay in the wild wild west of the
unprotected internet."

Failure to protect the power grids, transportation system, or financial
sector, he said, "could lead to physical damage and economic disruption
on a massive scale."

Privacy and civil liberties groups, however, have raised concerns about
the Einstein systems with regard to what information they would collect
and share with the government and what oversight, if any, would be put
in place to ensure that federal privacy and wiretapping laws are not
violated.

[...]


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