Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?

Jeff Shultz jeffshultz at wvi.com
Fri Jun 23 15:19:42 UTC 2006


Sean Donelan wrote:

> The Business Roundtable, composed of the CEOs of 160 large U.S. companies,
> said neither the government nor the private sector has a coordinated plan
> to respond to an attack, natural disaster or other disruption of the
> Internet. While individual government agencies and companies have their
> own emergency plans in place, little coordination exists between the
> groups, according to the study.
> 
> "It's a matter of more clearly defining who has responsibility," said
> Edward Rust Jr., CEO of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., who
> leads the Roundtable's Internet-security effort.
> 
> [...]
> 

Thus explainith why CEOs should not be responsible for this. I wonder if 
their CIOs or other techies have ever tried to explain the concept of a 
"CERT" to them.

-- 
Jeff Shultz



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