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Re: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system(Einstein 3.0)

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Tue Oct 07 14:13:19 2008

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:07:04 -0400 (EDT)
Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, [email protected] wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:30:11 CDT, "J. Oquendo" said:
> >> What about exceeding the minimum requirements for a change.
> > (I think you'll find that if somebody is actually willing to *pay*
> > for more security, there's plenty of outfits who are more than
> > happy to make it happen)
> 
> What should the US Government buy for more security?  And how can the
> US Government make sure they actually get what they are paying?
> 
> 
Right.  The US government is a *huge* operation.  Suppose you were the
CIO or the CSO for the US government (excluding the classified stuff)
-- what is the proper cybersecurity strategy?


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb