Posted on Feb 10, 2015
Do we need a unified US Government Cyber Effort? "Obama to Create New Agency to Examine Cyberthreats"
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The White House is setting up a new agency designed to coordinate cyberthreat intelligence that currently is spread across the federal government.
The agency would be modeled after the National Counter Terrorism Center, which was set up after the Sept. 11 attacks to coordinate terrorism intelligence. A failure to do so led to missed opportunities to thwart the attacks.
Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, was to announce the new agency in a speech today at the Wilson Center in Washington, said a White House official who was not authorized to be quoted by name ahead of the announcement. The plan was first reported Tuesday by the Washington Post.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-create-agency-examine-cyberthreats-28861192
The agency would be modeled after the National Counter Terrorism Center, which was set up after the Sept. 11 attacks to coordinate terrorism intelligence. A failure to do so led to missed opportunities to thwart the attacks.
Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, was to announce the new agency in a speech today at the Wilson Center in Washington, said a White House official who was not authorized to be quoted by name ahead of the announcement. The plan was first reported Tuesday by the Washington Post.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-create-agency-examine-cyberthreats-28861192
Posted 10 y ago
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What we need, SSG Norman Lihou, is for the lawyers to back off and give our cyber warriors some freedom of movement when it comes to dealing with the cyber threat. In my admittedly limited experience in this realm, I have noticed that by the time the lawyers have finished arguing out the fine points and writing papers on the subject, delivering opinions, etc., the bad guys have come, done their evil deeds, and gone. We need to be more agile in the cyber network operations world. I think we are hamstrung by legal BS about whether the attacker used as U.S. server to launch their attack ... and many other fine points. Until we change this, I think we are going to always be reacting, and in cyber war, that's not a good position to be in.
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I feel like we could add a department to an already existing agency, instead of creating a completely new one. The CIA already has tons of technology and cyber monitoring equipment. Instead of creating an completely new agency lets add a cyber terrorism division to the CIA. This would allow for the new jobs to still be created, while saving precious dollars from being invested in to a new building, equipment and all of the costs associated with creating a new agency. In a time of financial instability for our country, and I not sure that creating an entirely new agency is the best move.
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