America launches new cyber security initiative
Within weeks of blaming China for cyber attacks, the US government today announced it’s new Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNIC). After a through review of efforts to defend the U.S information and communications infrastructure, the initiative announced today is for achieving the following major goals :
a. To establish a front line of defense against today’s immediate threats
b. To defend against the full spectrum of threats
c. To strengthen the future cybersecurity environment
Here is a video of Howard Schmidt, the new Cybersecurity Coordinator at the White House, making the announcements :
CNIC will now pursue 12 clearly defined initiatives to meet its goals.
Initiative #1. Manage the Federal Enterprise Network as a single network enterprise with Trusted Internet Connections.
Initiative #2. Deploy an intrusion detection system of sensors across the Federal enterprise.
Initiative #3. Pursue deployment of intrusion prevention systems across the Federal enterprise
Initiative #4: Coordinate and redirect research and development (R&D) efforts.
Initiative #5. Connect current cyber ops centers to enhance situational awareness.
Initiative #6. Develop and implement a government-wide cyber counterintelligence (CI) plan.
Initiative #7. Increase the security of our classified networks.
Initiative #8. Expand cyber education.
Initiative #9. Define and develop enduring “leap-ahead” technology, strategies, and programs.
Initiative #10. Define and develop enduring deterrence strategies and programs
Initiative #11. Develop a multi-pronged approach for global supply chain risk management.
Initiative #12. Define the Federal role for extending cybersecurity into critical infrastructure domains.
While all this may sound nice, tax-payers should ask their government one few clear question : After spending all the dollars on implementing this initiative, who would be responsible if hackers managed to get into the networks ?
Knowing the cyber world and the capabilities being developed by the Chinese, hackers must be keenly studying the plan and building their own to find work-arounds. If the first initiative to manage the entire Federal Enterprise Network as a single enterprise were to be achieved, and hackers managed to crack that, God save the US.
Details of plans are available at : http://www.whitehouse.gov/cybersecurity/
Posted via email from Anil Sharma