http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/leadership/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227300374 By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek September 8, 2010 Addressing challenges to the federal government's cybersecurity efforts, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA) said that teamwork, global leadership, and a respect for citizens' privacy are necessary to secure U.S. critical infrastructure against cyber attacks. There are 250,000 probes trying to find their way into Department of Defense (DoD) networks every hour, and cyber attacks on federal agencies have increased 150% since 2008, Gen. Keith Alexander, NSA director and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, said Tuesday at the Gov 2.0 Summit at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, produced by O'Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb. The federal government has the potential to drastically reduce and prevent these attacks, but not unless the various agencies charged with cybersecurity tasks work together both at home and on a global scale. "The United States has been a world leader in the development of technology and the growth of the internet," Alexander said. "We made the internet, it seems to me that we ought to be the folks to be the first to go out there and secure it. Given the intellectual capital required to do that, it stands to reason that if we pool our resources we can effectively safeguard all our nation's equities in cyberspace." [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Wed Sep 08 2010 - 23:10:12 PDT
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