http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/04/03/chertoff-layered-defense-in-allies%e2%80%99-interest/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:44:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/04/03/chertoff-layered-defense-in-allies%e2%80%99-interest/#comment-100484 William R. Cumming Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:13:19 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2008/04/03/chertoff-layered-defense-in-allies%e2%80%99-interest/#comment-100484 Note that under a request from Senator Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) the GAO is leading a full review of Executive Branch operations under the authority of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended. Designed in part to incorporate lessons from mobilization of the domestic economy in WWI and WWII the DPA is fully applicable to the telecommunications and cyber-security arena. Interesting, the statute was identified in the report of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection that identified and defined for all time the split between cyber security and physical security and that identification was intensified leading to Y2K when Senators Bennett and Kyle got interested in CIP issues including cyber security. The departure of a key GAO senior official to become Microsoft's key CIP operative several years ago, and the constant rotation in the Exeuctive Branch of the CIP leadership has resulted in a nice mess to be straigtened out in the next administration. Computer Assisted Control systems continue to invade the manufacturing and other sectors with no real effort being made on either resilience or security. Low-hanging fruit for AQ! Note that under a request from Senator Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) the GAO is leading a full review of Executive Branch operations under the authority of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended. Designed in part to incorporate lessons from mobilization of the domestic economy in WWI and WWII the DPA is fully applicable to the telecommunications and cyber-security arena. Interesting, the statute was identified in the report of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection that identified and defined for all time the split between cyber security and physical security and that identification was intensified leading to Y2K when Senators Bennett and Kyle got interested in CIP issues including cyber security. The departure of a key GAO senior official to become Microsoft’s key CIP operative several years ago, and the constant rotation in the Exeuctive Branch of the CIP leadership has resulted in a nice mess to be straigtened out in the next administration. Computer Assisted Control systems continue to invade the manufacturing and other sectors with no real effort being made on either resilience or security. Low-hanging fruit for AQ!

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