[90983] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Fri Jun 23 11:23:52 2006
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:19:42 -0700
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0606230043080.14311@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> The Business Roundtable, composed of the CEOs of 160 large U.S. companies,
> said neither the government nor the private sector has a coordinated plan
> to respond to an attack, natural disaster or other disruption of the
> Internet. While individual government agencies and companies have their
> own emergency plans in place, little coordination exists between the
> groups, according to the study.
>
> "It's a matter of more clearly defining who has responsibility," said
> Edward Rust Jr., CEO of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., who
> leads the Roundtable's Internet-security effort.
>
> [...]
>
Thus explainith why CEOs should not be responsible for this. I wonder if
their CIOs or other techies have ever tried to explain the concept of a
"CERT" to them.
--
Jeff Shultz
