http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179789/DHS_official_fields_hard_questions_at_Black_Hat By Robert McMillan IDG News Service July 28, 2010 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent its highest-ranking official ever to speak at the Black Hat conference this week, and its Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute ended up fielding a few tough questions from skeptical computer security professionals in attendance. During a question-and-answer session at the end of her Wednesday keynote address, one attendee asked if we should expect the DHS to give cybersecurity the same kind of treatment it's given air travel with the Transportation Security Administration. "Why should we believe that DHS, going forward, is going to protect cyber in something other than the same way?" he asked, scoring the loudest applause of the session with the question. "Now as the TSA slows down the air travel, DHS will slow down the commerce." The undersecretary disagreed with this characterization of the TSA, but conceded that there is a "tension" in the DHS' mission. "We want to keep out people who might be dangerous, but we want to expedite legitimate trade and travel." "We happen to believe that we can achieve our security, we can protect our rights, we can protect commerce and lawful interchange," she said. "We can have all of these things, but we need to engage in a debate about how we will prioritize and how we will strike the balance." [...] _________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Thu Jul 29 2010 - 02:02:39 PDT
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