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

  • From: Marshall Eubanks
  • Date: Tue Oct 07 15:05:18 2008

On Oct 7, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:13:08 EDT, "Steven M. Bellovin" said:

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?

Step 0. DON"T PANIC.



Step 1: Figure out what I actually *have* already.


Step 2: Baseline your traffic patterns/usage.

- - ferg

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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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