IP: : BUSH TO CALL FOR FERDERAL NETWORK OPERATIONS FACILITY

[David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Esther Dyson <edyson () edventure com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:13:47 
To: Ryan Coonerty <rec7g () cms mail virginia edu>, taskforce () markle org,
   farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Fwd: BUSH TO CALL FOR FERDERAL NETWORK OPERATIONS FACILITY

FYI, Esther


> <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,484669,00.asp>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,484669,00.asp 
>
>
> Bush to Call for Fed NOC
> By Caron Carlson and Dennis Fisher
>
> The Bush administration has plans to create a centralized facility for 
> collecting and examining security-related e-mail and data traffic and will 
> push private network operators to expand their data-gathering initiatives, 
> according to an unreleased draft of the plan.
>
> The proposed cyber-security Network Operations Center is included in a 
> draft of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which was developed 
> by the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and is due for 
> release Sept. 18.
>
> The call for expanded data collection and analysis results from 
> administration concerns that efforts to secure cyberspace are hampered by 
> the lack of a single data-collection point to detect cyber-security 
> incidents and issue warnings, according to a draft of the plan, which was 
> obtained by eWeek.



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