Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

[sjk <sjk () sleepycatz com>]

$100M is for the first phase, which I would think would be the initial
deployment of intrusions sensors with out of band data feeds, and the
building of a baseline traffic model. The real question is why do any
critical control networks ever touch anything remotely connected to a
public network? Laziness - that's why.

Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> Because no-one who could do it for less can afford to respond to government contracts, and make sure they comply with 
> all the applicable laws and regulations, and keep the sort of records, and be prepared for the audits of said 
> records, required.
>
> As soon as you do business with the govt, the overhead goes through the roof.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Giagnocavo [mailto:patrick () zill net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:02 PM
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies
> >
> > andrew.wallace wrote:
> > > Article:
> > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487045450045753529838504631
> > 08.html
> > Why does it cost $100 million to install and configure OpenBSD on a
> > bunch of old systems?
> >
> > --Patrick