Comments on: New Cybersecurity Commission Formed to Advise Next POTUS http://www.hlswatch.com/2007/10/31/new-cybersecurity-commission-formed-to-advise-next-potus/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:07:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Jonah Czerwinski http://www.hlswatch.com/2007/10/31/new-cybersecurity-commission-formed-to-advise-next-potus/comment-page-1/#comment-81436 Jonah Czerwinski Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:49:55 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2007/10/31/new-cybersecurity-commission-formed-to-advise-next-potus/#comment-81436 WRC -- With little to point to as a track record by DHS on protecting against cyber security, I agree that this is long overdue. However, you raise an important point in that this is a challenge for the private sector as much as it is for component agencies of DHS and other Executive agencies. Heck, DOD endures thousands of cyber attacks daily. In many ways, this is a classic homeland security challenge: public sector and private sector are at once targeted and responsible for protection. When interests align like this, one can only hope that collaboration would emerge to good effect. Doing so may require the attention of the President, not only a couple members of Congress. Perhaps we can still expect to see a new cyber security strategy emerge from the White House as another stab at a swan song. WRC –

With little to point to as a track record by DHS on protecting against cyber security, I agree that this is long overdue. However, you raise an important point in that this is a challenge for the private sector as much as it is for component agencies of DHS and other Executive agencies. Heck, DOD endures thousands of cyber attacks daily. In many ways, this is a classic homeland security challenge: public
sector and private sector are at once targeted and responsible for protection. When interests align like this, one can only hope that collaboration would emerge to good effect.

Doing so may require the attention of the President, not only a couple members of Congress. Perhaps we can still expect to see a new cyber security strategy emerge from the White House as another stab at a swan song.

]]> By: William R. Cumming http://www.hlswatch.com/2007/10/31/new-cybersecurity-commission-formed-to-advise-next-potus/comment-page-1/#comment-81432 William R. Cumming Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:22:26 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2007/10/31/new-cybersecurity-commission-formed-to-advise-next-potus/#comment-81432 Good timing since it is a full decade since the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection differentiated cyber security from physical security in a seminal report. That report had major defects but did lead to PDD 63 and further Executive Branch activity. Hopefully, the new commission will look back to that report, trace its findings, defects, and what has or has not transpired in the meantime. In my opinion the passage of a decade has resulted in little real progress in cyber security. Microsoft still imposes real costs on the economy by its failures in the security arena even while its dominance persists. This reflects the high price society might yet pay for monopoly arrangements in a critical sector. Also, the Emergency Services sector, supposedly lead by FEMA still lacks both interoperability and security. Good timing since it is a full decade since the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection differentiated cyber security from physical security in a seminal report. That report had major defects but did lead to PDD 63 and further Executive Branch activity. Hopefully, the new commission will look back to that report, trace its findings, defects, and what has or has not transpired in the meantime.
In my opinion the passage of a decade has resulted in little real progress in cyber security. Microsoft still imposes real costs on the economy by its failures in the security arena even while its dominance persists. This reflects the high price society might yet pay for monopoly arrangements in a critical sector.
Also, the Emergency Services sector, supposedly lead by FEMA still lacks both interoperability and security.

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