RE: Lack of cybersecurity specialists sparks concern

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: "Huggins, Michael" <mhhuggins () firstcommand com>

Let's guess when the co-author of the Navy's Information Systems
Security Manager and Advanced Network Administrator Course of
Instruction, and a Certified Accreditation Action officer With the
National Security Agency comes ups for orders he is offered a billet
in a comm center in Souda Bay Crete or the option to retire.  Hmm I
really wonder what the government thinks.  They have brought this
problem unto themselves.  They have forced those with dedication and
perserverance to leave.  They cut off their noses to spite their
faces.  I have no pity for them.

Second thought, lets create InfraGard and share information with the
corporate community.  Lets not share the information that some of
those experts provide to us and lets not follow the security guidance
as set forth by PDD-63 (see www.ciao.gov publications PSCIA.pdf)  
let's not make US corporations aware of the free information assurance
products on the market created by uncle sam see (http://iase.disa.mil)
training products lets not share operational security information
(http://www.ioss.gov//)  what else can I say oh yeah
(http://csrc.nist.gov)  am I bitter heck no.  Do I attempt to continue
to share heck yeah. DO they listen depends.


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Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:41 AM
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Subject: [ISN] Lack of cybersecurity specialists sparks concern 

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0902/090402td2.htm

By Molly M. Peterson 
National Journal's Technology Daily 
September 4, 2002 

The United States is facing an alarming shortage in skilled workers to
protect the nation's critical infrastructures from cyberterrorism and
other threats, several homeland security and high-tech experts said
Wednesday.

"There is going to be more demand ... for people with [information
technology] skills," Harris Miller, president of the Information
Technology Association of America, said during a cybersecurity
conference in Washington sponsored by the MIS Training Institute. "It
is a huge problem we have in this country-not having enough people
with adequate skills and training."

Stressing the need to make information security second nature, Mark
Holman, deputy assistant to the president for the White House Office
of Homeland Security, said the president's forthcoming national
strategy for cybersecurity-due to be released Sept. 18-will address
the need for skilled workers to help defend computer networks.

Holman said the strategy aims to be a "living document" that will grow
and change as the technology changes. The document will contain
sections that address home users' security and network security
issues, Holman said. It also will categorize critical infrastructure
issues by industry, such as water filtration, electricity or
telecommunications.

Government and industry also must educate each other about
infrastructure vulnerabilities and threats through information-sharing
analysis centers (ISACs) and other partnerships, according to Ronald
Dick, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center.

[...]



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