http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/03/10/dhs-kicks-off-next-cyber-security-excercise/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:26:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/03/10/dhs-kicks-off-next-cyber-security-excercise/comment-page-1/#comment-142845 CYBERSPACE Cyber Storm II National Cyber Exercise « netwit 2.0 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:26:40 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/03/10/dhs-kicks-off-next-cyber-security-excercise/#comment-142845 [...] DHS Kicks Off Next Cyber Security Excercise [...] [...] DHS Kicks Off Next Cyber Security Excercise [...]

]]> http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/03/10/dhs-kicks-off-next-cyber-security-excercise/comment-page-1/#comment-97865 William R. Cumming Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:06:15 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/03/10/dhs-kicks-off-next-cyber-security-excercise/#comment-97865 When participating in drafting sessions of PD-63 I suggested after distributing copies that updating the definition of "Sabotage" where ever it appears in the United States Code but in particular the criminal code, Title 18, would assist in both critical infrastruction physical security and cyber security. It was obvious in the drafting session that few in the room took seriously the long term implications of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (report issued fall 1997) that analyszed and laid the ground work for the now historic and permanent split between physical security (see for example E.O. 12656 as amended) and cyber-security. The failure to follow through on the Congressionally (not Executive Branch) mandate to create the Commission may prove tragic. Again, compliments to Senator's Kyle and Bennett. Without them the Commission would not have existed. It even helped in Y2K preparations which todate is the largest civil preparedness effort undertaken by the Executive Branch with the exception of the COG/COOP programs. That preparedness effort was largely successful with the exception of a 9 day outage of the NRO's satellite coverage for one of its programs. Another example where instead of taking the initiative the Clinton Administration waited for others to act first. When participating in drafting sessions of PD-63 I suggested after distributing copies that updating the definition of “Sabotage” where ever it appears in the United States Code but in particular the criminal code, Title 18, would assist in both critical infrastruction physical security and cyber security. It was obvious in the drafting session that few in the room took seriously the long term implications of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (report issued fall 1997) that analyszed and laid the ground work for the now historic and permanent split between physical security (see for example E.O. 12656 as amended) and cyber-security. The failure to follow through on the Congressionally (not Executive Branch) mandate to create the Commission may prove tragic. Again, compliments to Senator’s Kyle and Bennett. Without them the Commission would not have existed. It even helped in Y2K preparations which todate is the largest civil preparedness effort undertaken by the Executive Branch with the exception of the COG/COOP programs. That preparedness effort was largely successful with the exception of a 9 day outage of the NRO’s satellite coverage for one of its programs. Another example where instead of taking the initiative the Clinton Administration waited for others to act first.

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