proposed changes in national "cyber security"

Thu Jul 25 12:52:29 UTC 2002

...which probably means it would become a centralized office that continues
to spin its wheels (instead of several doing the same thing - I guess that's
a move toward cost-cutting!) while lawmakers defer the problem by funding
additional research reports and projects instead of funding immediate
ventures to remedy existing problems and known vulnerabilities.......

When it comes to information security - or technology society in general -
the USG still doesn't get it, despite all the hype and hoopla.

rick
infowarrior.org

> From: Fred Heutte <aoxomoxoa at sunlightdata.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:18:33 -0700
> To: <nanog at merit.edu>
> Subject: proposed changes in national "cyber security"
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_8.15.shtml#2
> 
> (2) NEW DEPARTMENT LIKELY TO GAIN AUTHORITY OVER CYBER SECURITY AND
> INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION
> 
> Both House and Senate bills would grant the Department of Homeland Security
> authority over cyber security and infrastructure protection. Specifically,
> the bills would transfer to the new department the functions of the following
> entities:
> 
> *  the National Infrastructure Protection Center of the Federal Bureau of
> Investigation (excluding the Computer Investigations and Operations Section);
> 
> *  the National Communications System of the Department of Defense;
> 
> *  the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office of the Department of Commerce;
> 
> *  the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center of the
> Department
> of Energy;
> 
> *  the Federal Computer Incident Response Center of the General Services
> Administration.
> 
> Following objections by the high-tech industry and others, the House bill
> would
> not transfer the Computer Security Division of the National Institute of
> Standards and Technology. The Senate bill as introduced would transfer that
> NIST component, along with the Energy Security and Assurance Program of the
> Department of Energy and the Federal Protective Service of the General
> Services
> Administration.
> 
> Both bills would leave the FBI and CIA untouched by the reshuffling (with the
> exception of the FBI's NIPC, as noted above).
> 
> 
> 