[118561] in Cypherpunks
Re: New Center Will Combat Computer Security Threats
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Sat Oct 2 11:22:07 1999
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:04:35 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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The FBI was working to set up something similar for the software
industry. Last I heard about it, they were working in Cleveland,
Chicago, and another irrelevant backwater of a city where no
software of note gets produced. (Chicago produces a fair bit of
custom software, but what about (most critically) the Bay area/valley,
Boston, New York, Houston, Austin, Boulder, Salt Lake...
I inquired as to how the FBI planned to get these companies to share
information better than its shared over bugtraq, and got no useful
answer.
Adam
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 04:48:35PM -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:
| At 2:00 PM -0400 on 10/1/99, ecarm-news@ecarm.org wrote:
|
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| > Title: New Center Will Combat Computer Security Threats
| > Resource Type: News Article
| > Date: October 1, 1999
| > Source: NYT (Free Registration Required)
| > Author: JOHN MARKOFF
| > Keywords: UNITED STATES TR,INFORMATION CLEA,COMPUTERS ,SECURITY THREATS
| >
| > Abstract/Summary:
| > The Treasury Department will announce Friday that the Federal Government and
| > the financial services industry have established an information
| >clearinghouse to
| > combat threats to computer security and vulnerabilities in computer systems.
| >
| > The center, which will be managed exclusively by private industry,
| >will be known
| > as the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
| >It represents a
| > second phase in the Clinton Administration's plan to create a
| >nationwide system to
| > combat cybercrime.
| >
| > The Treasury system will rely on voluntary reports of incidents
| >from banks and other
| > financial institutions, in contrast to a centralized Federal
| >Government surveillance
| > system known as the Federal Intrusion Detection Network, or FIDNET, which is
| > designed to use automated technology to track break-ins to
| >Government computers.
| >
| > Both systems are outgrowths of a classified Clinton Administration
| >document known
| > as Presidential Decision Directive 63, issued in May 1998. Its
| >purpose is to develop
| > systems to protect against attacks on the nation's computer networks.
| >
| > Original URL:
| >http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/biztech/articles/01security.
| >html
| >
| > Added: Fri Oct 1 13:31:58 -040 1999
| > Contributed by: David Dillard
|
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