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DHS Forms New Cyber Hub To Protect Critical US Infrastructure (wsj.com)
The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday the creation of a new center aimed at guarding the nation's banks, energy companies and other industries from major cyberattacks that could cripple critical infrastructure. From a report: The launch of the National Risk Management Center was unveiled by DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a government-hosted cyber summit in New York City, at which Vice President Mike Pence and several other cabinet secretaries are expected to speak. In prepared remarks, Ms. Nielsen said that cyber threats now posed a greater threat to the country than physical attacks. DHS was founded 15 years ago to prevent another Sept. 11, 2001, Ms. Nielsen said, but "today I believe the next major attack is more likely to reach us online than on an airplane." The center's creation was motivated by a growing recognition in government that sophisticated cyberattacks, particularly those deployed by foreign adversaries, can not only harm a company or industry but can cause systemic failure across society, Chris Krebs, DHS's top cyber official, said in an interview.
There's the word "cyber" in the name of their unit, that means they're good!
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For those interested, it will be housed at Arlington, Virginia.
The most costly "terrorist" attack on the US this century will probably be a cyber attack.
The most lives and injuries will almost certainly be of a more conventional nature.
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I thought it said To Protect Criminal US Infrastructure.
Remember the Vault7 exploits that allow the CIA to hack people while making it look like it was Russians? Remember when the CIA claimed Russian hacking due to finding "Russian" malware on infected systems? From Vault 7: CIA can customize the "fingerprints" hacks leave behind and make it look like someone else did it. No, this is not some crazy conspiracy theory nonsense just because I said "CIA". This is for real.
Now, because the tools that the CIA developed to put a Russian fingerprint on any hack were leaked to hackers and rogue agents, anyone else can too, because the CIA was so utterly lax with their security. Any fingerprint is evidence of absolutely nothing, thanks to these leaks.
The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group. Yup, that's what they're called. But don't trust me, check it out yourself: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/...
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Are they going to pay worth a damn for talent, or stick with the current GS pay scale?
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Single point of failure! :-)
The plot to a Die Hard movie? One center with a copy of all the important data for the bad guys to break into?
only the Commander-in-Chief has the power to create a new branch of the military.
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Take off you shoes and lets us feel you up FOR SECURITY REASONS.
with any luck it should be online in 2715
What will be the role of this cyber hub? How is it going to push banks and utilities to update unmaintained systems?
The only thing I believe to be useful here would be economical incentive. That is, big fine and corporate leaders legal liability for security incidents.
At least 3 federal agencies (NSA/CIA/FBI) have long lists of vulnerabilities to break into systems. Who wants to bet they'll share any info with this new agency?
“The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday the creation of a new center aimed at guarding the nation's banks, energy companies and other industries from major cyberattacks that could cripple critical infrastructure.”
How about they not run their critical infrastructure on Microsoft Windows directly connected to the Internet.
I see banks, energy companies and other industries" but no mention of voting infrastructure, the only one that has actually been attacked already.
I think we've seen from this administrations complete undermining of basic security protections (including scoffing at clearances, removing cybersecurity from the national security council and refusing to investigate hacking claims in the 2016 election) that they are not trustworthy when it comes to cybersecurity. Fact is we've seen evidence that Foreign Cyberware units are infiltrating critical infrastructure. Without trust in our own government, this amounts to grandstanding and deniability when that next attack comes... and who knows they may have advanced notice that just such an attack is coming. Most of the comments on here are about this initiative being completely ineffectual... I think those comments are correct... and I'm simply adding that we need to consider that this is the intention, to look like you are doing something (we're tough on cybersecurity), but not actually doing anything.
The National Communications System, which was part of DISA in the late 1990's, along with the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), proposed this way back then. The NCS is now part of DHS. Whatever happened to that 20 year old proposal and similar ones since that this has still not been established?
DHS was founded 15 years ago to prevent another Sept. 11, 2001, ...
According to my calendar, there hasn't been a single Sept 11, 2001 since the DHS was founded. Heck of a job, guys!