[ISN] Cyberwar Issues Likely to Be Addressed Only After a Catastrophe

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/cyberwar-issues-likely-to-be-addressed-only-after-a-catastrophe/

By Kim Zetter 
Threat Level
Wired.com
February 17, 2011

When it comes to developing cyberwarfare policy, the United States will 
likely wait for a catastrophic event and then overreact, rather than 
plan ahead, said former intelligence chief Mike McConnell at the RSA 
Conference on Wednesday.

McConnell was pessimistic that Congress and the public would get its act 
together in time to debate and sort out all the questions that need to 
be answered about what constitutes cyberwar and how the government and 
private sector should respond when faced with incidents that fit the 
definition.

McConnell, former director of national intelligence and former director 
of the National Security Agency, was speaking on a panel that included 
former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Bruce Schneier 
chief technology security officer at BT, and James Lewis, director and 
senior fellow of the technology and public policy program at the Center 
for Strategic and International Studies.

When it comes to defining cyberwar, Chertoff and McConnell say espionage 
and information theft don’t qualify, but destruction of data or systems 
do. Designating the latter as an act of war, however, would still depend 
on the scale and genesis of the attack.

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