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08-16-2007, 08:56 AM
"Information technology security and information assurance are becoming too critical, too big and too complex a problem for the government to handle by itself, according to two security experts. But they disagree on how well government and industry are responding to the need for greater cooperation to improve cybersecurity. Tony Sager, chief of the National Security Agency’s Vulnerability Analysis and Operations Group, said in an opening address at the recent Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that government needs industry’s help and that NSA is reaching out to industry. But,according to Richard Clarke, former U.S. counterterrorism czar, who shared the opening keynote address slot with Sager, the government’s culture must change a lot more before the country’s critical infrastructure can be secured." Clarke questions the government's loss of momentum in solving the problem and advocates for a national plan to be implemented.
For more information:
http://www.gcn.com/print/26_21/44843-1.html
For more information:
http://www.gcn.com/print/26_21/44843-1.html