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Why isn't cyberspace more secure?

Why isn't cyberspace more secure? V I viewpoints DOI:10.1145/1839676.1839688 Joel F. Brenner Privacy and Security Why Isn ™t Cyberspace More Secure? Evaluating governmental actions ”and inactions ”toward improving cyber security and addressing future challenges. N C y B e r S PaC e I T ™ S easy to get away with criminal fraud, easy to steal corporate intellectual property, and easy to penetrate governmental networks. Last spring the new Commander of USCYBERCOM, NSA ™s General Keith Alexander, acknowledged for the first time that even U.S. classified networks have been penetrated.2 Not only do we fail to catch most fraud artists, IP thieves, and cyber spies ”we don ™t even know who most of them are. Yet every significant public and private activity ”economic, social, governmental, military ”depends on the security of electronic systems. Why has so little happened in 20 years to alter the fundamental vulnerability of these systems? If you ™re sure this insecurity is either (a) a hoax or (b) a highly desirable form of anarchy, you can skip the rest of this column. Presidential Directives to Fix This Problem emerge dramatically like clockwork from the White House echo chamber, chronicling a history of executive torpor. One of the following http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Communications of the ACM Association for Computing Machinery

Why isn't cyberspace more secure?

Brenner, Joel F.
Communications of the ACM , Volume 53 (11) – Nov 1, 2010
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V I viewpoints DOI:10.1145/1839676.1839688 Joel F. Brenner Privacy and Security Why Isn ™t Cyberspace More Secure? Evaluating governmental actions ”and inactions ”toward improving cyber security and addressing future challenges. N C y B e r S PaC e I T ™ S easy to get away with criminal fraud, easy to steal corporate intellectual property, and easy to penetrate governmental networks. Last spring the new Commander of USCYBERCOM, NSA ™s General Keith Alexander, acknowledged for the first time that even U.S. classified networks have been penetrated.2 Not only do we fail to catch most fraud artists, IP thieves, and cyber spies ”we don ™t even know who most of them are. Yet every significant public and private activity ”economic, social, governmental, military ”depends on the security of electronic systems. Why has so little happened in 20 years to alter the fundamental vulnerability of these systems? If you ™re sure this insecurity is either (a) a hoax or (b) a highly desirable form of anarchy, you can skip the rest of this column. Presidential Directives to Fix This Problem emerge dramatically like clockwork from the White House echo chamber, chronicling a history of executive torpor. One of the following

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