http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/einstein-on-private-networks By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com May 27, 2010 Companies that operate critical infrastructures and do not voluntarily allow the federal government to install monitoring software on their networks to detect possible cyberattacks would face the "wild" internet on their own and place us all at risk, a top Pentagon official seemed to say Wednesday. Defense Deputy Secretary William Lynn III, speaking at the Strategic Command Cyber Symposium in Nebraska, said we need to think imaginatively about how to use the National Security Agency's Einstein monitoring systems on critical private-sector networks -- such as those in the financial, utility and communication industries -- in order to protect us. "Operators of critical infrastructure could opt in to a government-sponsored security regime," Lynn said. Otherwise, "individual users who do not want to enroll could stay in the wild wild west of the unprotected internet." Failure to protect the power grids, transportation system, or financial sector, he said, "could lead to physical damage and economic disruption on a massive scale." Privacy and civil liberties groups, however, have raised concerns about the Einstein systems with regard to what information they would collect and share with the government and what oversight, if any, would be put in place to ensure that federal privacy and wiretapping laws are not violated. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! Shop InfoSec News http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Thu May 27 2010 - 22:30:43 PDT
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