[131350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DHS and NSA getting married?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Oct 22 11:04:46 2010
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14C42B@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:04:37 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:46 AM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
> An agreement signed this month with the Department of Homeland Security
> and an earlier initiative to protect companies in the defense industrial
> base make it likely that the military will be a key part of any response
> to a cyber attack.
are any of the civilian agencies really prepared/capable of dealing
with 'cyber attack'? it seems fairly natural that a 'cyber attack' (on
the gov't, or it's pieces/parts) is equivalent to an 'attack' on same.
We don't arm the NIST folks with Ar-15's and send them over the hill,
we do that with marines.
-chris
