U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

Tomas L. Byrnes tomb at byrneit.net
Sun Jul 11 23:31:43 UTC 2010


Because no-one who could do it for less can afford to respond to government contracts, and make sure they comply with all the applicable laws and regulations, and keep the sort of records, and be prepared for the audits of said records, required.

As soon as you do business with the govt, the overhead goes through the roof.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Giagnocavo [mailto:patrick at zill.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:02 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies
> 
> andrew.wallace wrote:
> > Article:
> >
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487045450045753529838504631
> 08.html
> >
> 
> Why does it cost $100 million to install and configure OpenBSD on a
> bunch of old systems?
> 
> --Patrick



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