http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/09/cybereye-defending-cyberspace.aspx?s=gcndaily_090309 By William Jackson GCN.com Mar 06, 2009 At the recent Black Hat Federal IT security conference in Arlington, Va., former White House cybersecurity adviser Paul Kurtz called for a public discussion of what he called taboo subjects. If we are to have a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, he said, we must begin thinking about how to effectively integrate the intelligence community and military services into the program. A new war, somewhat akin to the Cold War, is simmering online, but the nation has yet to develop a strategic plan for using military and intelligence resources in defending its information infrastructure. This is not to say that the intelligence community is not gathering large amounts of information or that the Defense Department is not developing the capacity to defend itself, and retaliate, online. But intelligence data has not been integrated into the overall picture of what is going on online, and there are no protocols for determining what constitutes an act of cyber warfare and what the appropriate response would be, Kurtz said. "We need to have a public discussion," he said, on sharing intelligence with law enforcement and the private sector and on the use of military weapons in cyberspace. At the same conference, some companies demonstrated tools that enable secure information sharing, using cryptographic techniques that allow data mining across multiple databases without compromising privacy. Andrew Lindell, chief cryptographer at Aladdin Knowledge Systems, showed how to ensure privacy on both sides of the search so that data is not unnecessarily exposed to the searcher and the searcher does not have to reveal what he is looking for. "It's a trivial solution," possible with commercial technology, Lindell said. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Tue Mar 10 2009 - 05:11:55 PDT
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