President's tech council plays sad trombone for federal cybersecurity

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/presidents-tech-council-plays-sad-trombone-for-federal-cyber-security/

By Sean Gallagher
Ars Technica
Nov 22 2013

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) 
released a report on the state of the nation's cybersecurity today. The 
report's first finding: the US government is terrible at cybersecurity.

"The Federal Government rarely follows accepted best practices," the 
report stated. In order to ensure that the country as a whole is more 
secure against cyber attack, the council advised, the government "needs to 
lead by example and accelerate its efforts to make routine cyber attacks 
more difficult by implementing best practices for its own systems."

Much of the list of PCAST's recommendations for taking that leadership 
role read like the advice that many IT people give their parents. Among 
the top of the list of cyber-fails that need to be corrected is the 
government's continued use of Windows XP and outdated, insecure browsers.

[...]



--
Dean Bushmiller teaches a great 5-Day CISM in Albany NY Dec. 2  6.
Call 327-937-9786 for details.