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Die unendliche Geschichte, Teil 2334322. Nur mit gutem Zureden wird das
nie etwas. Aber dass die .gov-Leute ihre eigene PPP-Arbeit inzwischen
"unacceptable" nennen, ist schon bemerkenswert.
RB
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0209/web-yoran-02-11-04.asp
Security chief urges partnering
By Florence Olsen
Feb. 11, 2004
A Homeland Security Department official said this morning that the
government's record of fostering public/private partnerships for
securing cyberspace has been unacceptable.
While claiming progress on cybersecurity, Amit Yoran, director of the
National Cyber Security Division at DHS, vowed that the government
would work harder on developing its relationships with the private
sector in the coming year and would also pursue a long-term agenda
that may not see results for many years to come.
Yoran said that while DHS is focused "on changing the fundamental
ground rules of cybersecurity," it also has more immediate tasks on
its agenda, such as building what he described as a survivable network
for sharing critical information if the Internet and other
communications systems are brought down by an attack.
Speaking at a breakfast meeting of the Information Technology
Association of America, a group that represents IT companies, Yoran
said he is often asked to describe a catastrophic cyberattack, or
"digital Pearl Harbor." He declines to paint such scenarios, but he
said that the government has begun modeling such attacks and is in the
process of building a survivable infrastructure, called the Cyber
Warning and Information Network. Progress on creating the network "is
notable," he said, "but is not complete."
Yoran said that DHS will be thinking of cybersecurity in broad terms
and trying to avoid a too-narrow focus on cyberterrorism. For that
reason, he said, many of the government's long-term cybersecurity
efforts will be to improve practices used within the software industry
to develop and evaluate software code, in part by using more automated
techniques for writing secure software.
Given the trends toward having larger and larger teams of coders
working on software and sending coding jobs offshore, Yoran said that
government and industry must also develop better methods for detecting
the presence of backdoors and other insecurities in software.
Citing the DHS' National Cyber Alert System as an accomplishment,
Yoran said it attracted 250,000 subscribers in less than a week of its
launch on Jan. 28, "a genuinely not-too-shabby reach for our first
week in operation."
He also noted that the department has formed three new operational
groups that are contributing to the national cybersecurity effort. One
is the Chief Information Security Officers Forum, an organization of
senior officials responsible for cybersecurity in their federal
agencies.
A second is the Government Forum of Incident Response Teams, whose
members are systems operators from DHS and from other federal civilian
and military agencies who meet to work out interoperability problems.
A third is the Cyber Interagency Incident Management Group, which is
made up of law enforcement, national security and Defense Department
officials that work on coordinating plans for responding to incidents.
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