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The US-Soviet Cyber Cold War
Roberto123 writes "A security expert with the NSA says a cyber cold war is being waged that has significant parallels to the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union. Dickie George says the way to fight the cyber cold war is by building security into technology, making it transparent to the end user, continually monitoring networks and updating their security software."
Anyone else amused that the word "cyber" is still in use?
I'm more amused about the "Soviet" part.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
This guy gets it:
"The cyber security professionals that we are creating today have to make security invisible to the end user. "They have to make it inherent in the out-of-the-box product that you buy and the only way to do that is for us all to work together, industry, government and academia. We need to be partnering on this."
All this crap about "user awareness" is a dead end. It takes too much attention. The mess underneath needs to be fixed. It has to be automatic. (And don't claim that's impossible unless you've read up on SE Linux and NSA's work on secure systems._
The last high-level US Government professional to publicly point this out was Amit Yoran at Homeland Security. He named Microsoft as the problem. He was canned and replaced with a lobbyist.