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Pentagon To Spend $500 Million On Cyber Defense

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-copies-of-mcaffees dept.

hostedftp found a story about the Pentagon's plan to shell out half a billion dollars on cyber defense in the next year. The article says, "The $500 million is part of the Pentagon's 2012 budget request of $2.3 billion to improve the Defense Department's cyber capabilities."

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  1. Re:sonds good ... until you read it. by khasim · · Score: 2, Informative

    From TFA:

    The effort is part of a âoecomprehensive cyber strategy called Cyber 3.0,â he said.

    Hey, it's even cooler than Web 2.0 'cause, you know, it's like 3.0.

    Anyone got the spec's for "Cyber 2.7"?

    The military is reaching out to commercial companies for the latest technologies and technical experts to safeguard the Pentagonâ(TM)s computer networks from attacks and espionage, Lynn said.

    Here's an idea. You can have it for free.

    How about you have a department of nothing but hackers who try to crack your systems. As they get through, they report what they did and you fix it? No 3.0 needed.

    Lynn told the conference that he had met with Intel Corp. and Google Inc., and planned to meet with Microsoft Corp. âoeThey all think there is technology that can be deployed, both hardware and softwareâ that can adapt technologies to better defend against attacks.

    Of course there is. The problem is whether that technology is just a band-aid for core problems in the systems.

    You need to identify what can be done with the technology you have today.

    That will tell you the flaws in that technology.

    Which will tell you what you need to band-aid tomorrow UNTIL you can get the core problems FIXED.

  2. that's nothing by spongman · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about John Boner's $450 million earmark spending the Pentagon's budget on a project it doesn't even want?