[iwar] [fc:IT.pros:.Cyberraid.to.hit.U.S..agencies]

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Date: 2002-06-27 05:50:53

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IT pros: Cyberraid to hit U.S. agencies

By Margaret Kane  Special to ZDNet News June 25, 2002,
<a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-939152.html">http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-939152.html>

WASHINGTON--Information technology professionals think a major attack on
U.S. government computer systems is coming and that the government is
not adequately prepared for it, according to a survey released Tuesday.

Nearly half of IT professionals believe that the U.S. government will be
hit with a "major cyberattack" in the next 12 months, according to the
survey, conducted for the Business Software Alliance. BSA President
Richard Holleyman, announcing the survey results at an e-government
conference here, said an attack could range from a discrete attempt to
get at a select group of highly sensitive data to a broad-ranging attack
on multiple systems.

The most important step that needs to be taken is to make sure that even
if government systems are breached, the data itself is encrypted and
protected

The government's own past surveys have also given many government
agencies flunking grades when it comes to computer security.

But officials at the press conference cautioned, "If we think technology
is a silver bullet, we're wrong."

"It's got to be used with policies and procedures," said Bill Conner,
CEO of BSA member Entrust, which sells IT security software and
services.

The government should be devoting at least as much time, energy and
money to cybersecurity as it did to the Year 2000 bug, Conner said.

"We put a lot of emphasis on airplane security and barricades, but what
about flight plans," he said.

The BSA has been meeting with government to address the problems,
Holleyman said, and has encouraged Congress to include cybersecurity in
the duties being assigned to the proposed cabinet-level homeland defense
agency. But he said he did not think the "sense of urgency" has been
attached to the concerns.

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