http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Obama-Urged-to-Take-Immediate-Cyber-Security-Steps/



By Roy Mark

eWEEK.com

2008-11-06 



President-elect Barack Obama has promised to appoint a national 

cyber-security adviser. According to a report by the Defense Science 

Board, the cyber-security czar will inherit a civilian and military 

information infrastructure that is ill-prepared for advanced 

cyber-attacks, such as denial of service and malicious modification of 

information. The United States' vulnerability to cyber-attacks in space 

presents a particular challenge for the new leaders.



President-elect Barack Obama will inherit a Department of Defense 

increasingly concerned about advance cyber-threats to the nation's 

civilian and military information infrastructures, according to a report 

by the Defense Science Board.



The Board, a federal advisory committee established to provide 

independent advice to the Secretary of Defense, said in its Nov. 4 

report, "Defense Imperatives for the New Administration," [1] (PDF) that 

while many cyber-security studies are under way and budgets are being 

developed under President Bush's classified National Cyber Security 

Initiative, much more needs to be done. The National Cyber Security 

Initiative was begun in January and is estimated to cost as much as $30 

billion over the next seven years.



"There has been little actual progress to date in terms of implementing 

cyber-security improvements against advanced threats," the report 

stated. "The options open to adversaries are many and varied."



[1] http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2008-11-Defense_Imperatives.pdf



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