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White House Cybersecurity Strategy at a Crossroads
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PanamaVet
PanamaVet,
 User Rank: Strategist
7/18/2018 | 9:12:24 AM
Analysis
The report which is the basis for the current Russian indictments identifies perpetrators not found in the current list of those indicted.

Mueller was held accountable during the previous round of Russian indictments when one defendant was represented in court and demanded that Mueller produce the evidence of a crime.  He first tried to delay and then produced data that did not contain evidence.

It appears the current list is intended to exclude any Russian who may actually show up in court demanding accountability and so it is difficult to take seriously.

In other words, the basis for this analysis of Cybersecurity performance is based on a political ploy that has already proven worthless when it comes to drawing conclusions.

The fact is that a number of state sponsored attempts including our own are working every minute of every day to gather whatever information can be produced.

In the future let's stick to that and not waste time playing politics.

 </PanamaVet>

 
tcritchley07
tcritchley07,
 User Rank: Moderator
7/18/2018 | 9:20:08 AM
White House Cybersecurity Strategy
The internet's security is irretrievably insecure. I suggest the US looks at RINA (Recursive InterNetworking Architecture). I have no personal interest in this; I just think it looks as though it should be investigated as a alternative to the current cybersecurity 'patch and pray' philosophy.
jenshadus
jenshadus,
 User Rank: Strategist
7/18/2018 | 9:59:23 AM
Re: White House Cybersecurity Strategy
Thanks for mentioning this technology.  I'll have to look into it.  Sounds interesting
jenshadus
jenshadus,
 User Rank: Strategist
7/18/2018 | 10:01:26 AM
Re: Analysis
I was thinking the same thing.  Where is the proof?  Has anyone ever heard of the enemy within?  And who in the heck was the DEM HQ security hack?  I think they all did this to themselves in case they lost.  Who know, and the lack of direction that Mueller has been bulldogging is not reassuring.  Thanks for putting it down so well.
zzx375
zzx375,
 User Rank: Strategist
7/18/2018 | 10:03:12 AM
Missing something
I'm missing something in all of this brouhaha and I could be accused of having simple/slow brain:

Where is the specific list of offenses that constitutes this meddling?  If bogus information dissemination is all there is to it, then I suggest the concern might rightly have to do with a society (ours) that has the lost the ability of critical analysis.  If something doesn't read "right", if the first thought "This seems hokey" it just might be.  Hacking I get although I don't get skipping the basics to prevent (patch your servers and desktops, teach people not to click on links in emails, keep following the established approval chain despite a "hair-on-fire" phone call or email from the Big Cheese - always get confirmation).  Fear of Russian meddling might be doing more harm than good.  
ragediver24
ragediver24,
 User Rank: Strategist
7/18/2018 | 11:44:23 AM
Re: Analysis
Russian Hacking has been going on since before Obama and even further. Everyone is listening to everyone elses communications. The NSA is gobbling up everything with SIGINT and OSINT and yet there's still no evidence that the Russian's meddled in the election to an extent that swayed the vote count. The DNC used poor security practices and even gave people with questionable foreign ties access and security clearance to congressional and campaign documentation, and then tried to ccover it up when it became poltically expedient to do so. Saying that there's no clear Cybersecurity plan from Trump is disingenous. Obama administration published the NICE framework as well as other Executive Orders to enhance Cybersecurity and that did little to stop Russian trollls, Bots, etc. Trump published this https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-strengthening-cybersecurity-federal-networks-critical-infrastructure/ 

Which more or less says the same thing Obama said in generic terms. The difference is in backing up actual threats with actions. Unless you sit in a SOC, NOC, NSA cell that has direct information on what threats are actually occurring on a daily basis, saying that Trump somehow gave away the keys to the kingdom is flat out false. All that aside, as a security professional, I come to your site to avoid politics, but more and more tech journalists can't help but throw in their political spin. 
juliabeyers
juliabeyers,
 User Rank: Apprentice
9/20/2019 | 5:26:59 AM
Thanks
Thanks for your analytics


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