Time's Running Out for National Cyberplan
By Allan Holmes | Thursday, October 11, 2007 | 05:22 PM
By Allan Holmes | Thursday, October 11, 2007 | 05:22 PM
The Homeland Security Department has been working for years with the private sector to develop an operational plan it can follow in case a cyberattack takes down computers maintaining the critical infrastructure that supports the U.S. economy, such as networks operating the transportation, energy and financial systems. Or the electrical grid. They may want to hurry; cyberattacks on networks operated by electric utilities have jumped 90 percent in the past nine months, according to a security consultant that serves utilities. DHS has been criticized for the slow pace of creating a plan.
Hat tip: SANS Institute.
Comments
National CyberPlan for Electrical Grid is so simple Homer Simpson can solve it.
Please just disconnect any computer hardware from the web.
Why do they have to be connected to the internet in the first place?
For 75 years or more we have had some form of a "grid" without the internet...and still had electricity...even nuclear power.
Go figure.
david | Saturday, October 13, 2007 | 02:50 PMI do not envy DHS's task order for this...it is a tall order indeed. However, they signed up for the job and the objective of securing out national tech infrastructure is more critical than ever. Thus far, performance towards this objective is pathetic and the national infrastructure is left ever more vulnerable as a result. I see a gigantic management gap at DHS and personally know of turnover of key professionals so severe that one is left wondering how any objectives are met at DHS. Almost no one stays around there for long. IMHO, management must step up (from as high as the WH) and reassess what kind of work and team environment they have created. It would seem change is overdue at a systemic level. Though its easy to buy a willing scapegoat (for the right price), I find it hard to believe all their problems can be blamed on one person. Action is needed at DHS, the nation is counting on their success.
Don | Friday, October 12, 2007 | 07:18 AMABOUT THIS BLOG
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