Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2668-1002156863-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 03 Oct 2001 17:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4106 invoked by uid 510); 4 Oct 2001 00:56:43 -0000 Received: from n14.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.64) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 4 Oct 2001 00:56:43 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2668-1002156863-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.220] by n14.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Oct 2001 00:56:38 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 4 Oct 2001 00:54:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 91293 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2001 00:54:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 4 Oct 2001 00:54:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 4 Oct 2001 00:56:37 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id RAA21507 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:56:28 -0700 Message-Id: <200110040056.RAA21507@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Cybersecurity.R&D.'inadequate'] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cybersecurity R&D 'inadequate' By Diane Frank, Federal Computer Week, 10/3/2001 <a href="http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1001/web-cyber-10-02-01.asp">http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1001/web-cyber-10-02-01.asp> The federal government needs to dedicate more of its research and development resources to address problems such as cybersecurity, where research has been "inadequate," said Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), chairman of the House Science Committee. Speaking Oct. 1 to a group of college presidents from the State University of New York, Boehlert said that computer security is the most important R&D area pertaining to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that the government does not appear to be addressing. This does not mean working only to combat cyber-based terrorist attacks designed to shut down systems or the Internet, Boehlert said. The government also must increase the level of security on all computer systems through increased funding to federal, academic and industry research, he said. "While the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 events did not engage in cyberattacks-indeed they made full use of the intact Internet in carrying out the everyday activities, like airline ticket purchases, on which their plot depended-our general vulnerability to terrorism should make us look again at our ability to protect the computer systems on which we all increasingly rely," Boehlert said. Research already under way on identification techniques, especially biometrics, must also get higher priority in the president's budget, he said. White House and congressional leaders tentatively have agreed to increase the fiscal 2002 budget, and according to Office of Management and Budget Director Mitchell Daniels Jr., resources will be devoted to R&D, Boehlert said. President Bush has named a new science adviser, John Marburger, who will head the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which oversees much of the federal R&D budget. That position has been vacant since January, and while Marburger awaits confirmation in the Senate, the division directors and other staff members also are in limbo, Paul Domich, a member of OSTP, told the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee last week. The Science Committee has tentatively scheduled a hearing for Oct. 10 to look at the issue of cybersecurity R&D and plans to hold another hearing later in the month to examine research needs to protect physical infrastructure, Boehlert said. The committee is already working with the new Office of Homeland Security in this area, he said. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UnN2wB/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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