U.S. Military Wants to Exert Influence Over Private Cyber Infrastructure

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Considering how the U.S. Military can't even protect it's own networks
against well-known USB malware, I find this suggestion laughable.

Via NetworkWorld.

[snip]

The U.S. military wants to exert more influence over the protection of
power grids, transportation networks and financial network systems, a
Pentagon official says in a broad-ranging essay published in Foreign
Affairs.

To do so the Pentagon is urging that its defense expertise be put in play
beyond the .mil domain to include .gov and .com and wants policy makers to
figure out how best to do that.

The reasons are that the military relies on these networks to deal with
suppliers and that these networks could become military targets, says
William J. Lynn III, undersecretary of defense, in the essay [1] called
"Defending a New Domain."

"Protecting those networks and the networks that undergird critical U.S.
infrastructure must be part of Washington's national security and homeland
defense missions," Lynn says.

Because the military relies on these networks, the expertise it has
developed should be made available to them, he says, but he doesn't
describe exactly how that would happen in practice.

[snip]

More:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/082610-us-military-power-grids.html

Enjoy,

- - ferg

[1]
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66552/william-j-lynn-iii/defending-a
- -new-domain?page=show

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