http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cold-war-then-and-now By Robert Mullins Microsoft Tech Network World 11/20/10 When Dickie George of the National Security Agency says, "This is life and death and about our freedom and our way of life," he’s not talking about the Soviet Union firing nuclear missiles at the U.S. or infiltrating our government with spies bent on subversion. He’s talking about cyber criminals hacking into personal, business or government computers, stealing information, intellectual property and/or money. George is the Information Assurance Technical Director at the NSA and compared the threats of the current cyber cold war to the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union in a webcast Wednesday hosted by RSA Conference, the network security industry convention held twice annually in the U.S. and Europe, which I cover for news about Microsoft. I found the parallels interesting and provocative. George says fighting today’s cyber cold war depends on building the best security into computer technology, continuous monitoring of networks for threats, and the adoption of security that is transparent to the end user. "When we do this we can make the nation a much harder target," he said. The "threat adversary model" between today’s cyber war and the Cold War that raged from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 share six common characteristics, George said: Capabilties; resources; intent; motivation; access; and risk aversion. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Sun Nov 21 2010 - 23:33:39 PST
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