White House declassifies parts of US cybersecurity plan
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White House declassifies <a href="javascript:;" onClick="javascript:tagshow(event, 'parts');" target="_self"><u><strong>parts</strong></u></a> of US cybersecurity planWhite House declassifies parts of US cybersecurity planOn Tuesday, the White House declassified cybersecurity somewhat when cybersecurity czar Howard Schmidt pulled back the curtain, at least a bit,#x on the Bush administration’s secretive plan to defend the nation’s computer networks.At the RSA Conference,NCR parts, a security industry event, in San Francisco Tuesday,pot-pourriMr. Schmidt announced that the Obama administration was partially declassifying the 2008 Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) in the name of transparency.Skip to next paragraph Related Stories
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Obama’s smart pick for cyber czar: Howard Schmidt “Transparency is particularly vital in areas, such as the CNCI, where there have been legitimate questions about sensitive topics like the role of the intelligence community in cybersecurity,” said Schmidt in a statement posted on the White House blog.The declassified portion of the CNCI includes descriptions of 12 broad initiatives of the CNCI, but few details.According to the Wired Threat Level blog, #x“the most most controversial part of the declassified plan is a discussion of a need for the government to define its role in protecting private critical infrastructure networks” such as telecoms, the electric grid, Internet providers, and banking networks.“The Department of Homeland Security and its private-sector partners have developed a plan of shared action” in an effort to confront the threats facing nongovernment computer networks,pot-pourriaccording to the declassified plan.The document largely focuses on efforts to secure the federal government’s vast computer networks with the use of its Einstein system to detect unauthorized attempts to access government computers.“There's not much in the way of details,” wrote CNET, “but those that are included are likely to raise questions about the role of the National Security Agency in network surveillance,”pot-pourriwhich worries many civil libertarians.相关的主题文章：
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