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Obama Administration To Begin 60-Day Cyber Policy Review

Submitted by Vu M. Nguyen on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 15:56
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"There are real questions around what is an act of war in cyberspace," Paul Kurtz said. "We know that we have adversaries who are taking control of servers and using them to attack U.S. networks. I would argue that we need cyber means to stop those attacks rather than kinetic means."
Source: SecurityFocus

Most of these cyber attacks come from rival nations, which raises serious red flags. The level of sophistication and amount of brazen attacks requires considerable knowledge/funds. Cyber warfare isn't just a good science fiction plot, it's reality.

"I would argue they do have an important role. Today, we have limited capability to determine origin of attacks. Adversaries are taking advantage of the fact that we are not connecting the dots in cyberspace," said Kurtz.
Source: InternetNews

Finding and prosecuting cyber attackers is a joke. Anyone with open source tools can steal someone else's wireless connection, then SSH server hop around the world and perform attacks. Then they can cover their tracks (if they even care to do so) without fear of being identified.

There are so many attack vectors to consider, how can you realistically mitigate compromises internally and externally for a government workforce of millions?


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