HOW TO FIGHT AND WIN THE CYBERWAR
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
- DECEMBER 6, 2010
We should think of cyberattacks as guided missiles and respond similarly—intercept them and retaliate.
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Not many people realize that all of our nation’s air, land and sea forces rely on network technologies that are vulnerable to cyberweapons, including logistics, command and control, fleet positioning and targeting. If they are compromised or obliterated, the U.S. military would be incapable of operating
Several years ago, during the presidency of George W. Bush, many banks and Wall Street firms were knocked offline. The financial industry, which had long been considered to have the best safeguards against cyberinfections in the private sector, discovered its computers had been penetrated by a worm, so-called because a virus grown on one computer can worm its way to millions of others. Mr. Bush asked then Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to examine what it would take to protect our critical infrastructures. The upshot was that steps were taken to strengthen the security of the military networks, but little else was done. (more…)
