Is the UK prepared for Cyber Warfare?
August 11, 2006
In Information Warfare, the deal is not the technology but the management: the way you manage your way through the attacks.
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This is rather like the business environment. Information Warfare has become so important because, whereas five years ago, IT was little more than a filing-cabinet, now it is the fuel of a nation's GDP. The trend is coherence, the integration of information from all sources, and this means connectivity to the home.
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The sixth rule of System Security is the "insider threat". Our worst danger is ourselves and our own people.
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John McWilliam MP, Chairman PITCOM : You make out that the NSA and GCHQ do not trust anyone. Surely they only act when there is suspicion of criminal or terrorist intent?
Simon Davies : They are playing two hands in the card game. It is generally accepted that the NSA, and presumably GCHQ as well, have been intercepting commercial communications. It is not just about crime: it is about economic intelligence gathering. Congress will be debating this in March.
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Adrian Norman, Consultant : It is time to collaborate, not just to get one's own system right. Otherwise, we will be like a safe driver on a road on which most others cannot drive, or drive according to different rules.
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David Firnberg : Who is going to kick the backside of the ostrich? I ask this because there seems to be a lot of ostriches here today, with their heads in the sand. Who is going to be the prime mover to solve these problems: the NCC, EURIM, or the Government?
Source: http://www.mi2g.com/
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This is rather like the business environment. Information Warfare has become so important because, whereas five years ago, IT was little more than a filing-cabinet, now it is the fuel of a nation's GDP. The trend is coherence, the integration of information from all sources, and this means connectivity to the home.
...
The sixth rule of System Security is the "insider threat". Our worst danger is ourselves and our own people.
...
John McWilliam MP, Chairman PITCOM : You make out that the NSA and GCHQ do not trust anyone. Surely they only act when there is suspicion of criminal or terrorist intent?
Simon Davies : They are playing two hands in the card game. It is generally accepted that the NSA, and presumably GCHQ as well, have been intercepting commercial communications. It is not just about crime: it is about economic intelligence gathering. Congress will be debating this in March.
...
Adrian Norman, Consultant : It is time to collaborate, not just to get one's own system right. Otherwise, we will be like a safe driver on a road on which most others cannot drive, or drive according to different rules.
...
David Firnberg : Who is going to kick the backside of the ostrich? I ask this because there seems to be a lot of ostriches here today, with their heads in the sand. Who is going to be the prime mover to solve these problems: the NCC, EURIM, or the Government?
Source: http://www.mi2g.com/