[108513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Oct 7 15:02:48 2008
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:01:07 -0700
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <27001.1223405746@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:55 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:13:08 EDT, "Steven M. Bellovin" said:
>
>> Right. The US government is a *huge* operation. Suppose you were the
>> CIO or the CSO for the US government (excluding the classified stuff)
>> -- what is the proper cybersecurity strategy?
>
> Step 1: Figure out what I actually *have* already.
>
Step 2: Baseline your traffic patterns/usage.
- - ferg
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