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There are no less than 35 cyberlaws making their way through the US congress these days. Among them is a proposal by Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins that would make DHS the central manager for cybersecurity. Do you think this is a good approach to managing cybersecurity at the federal level? What are the implications for personal liberty and privacy? Tell us what you think.
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I think that the Department of Homeland Security should be broken up because it is too encompassing of a department. There should be a new department called the United States Department of Information Security and Cybergovernment. That way it could be a central department just focusing on legislation on new occurances on cyber tactics, defenses, and overall information security and laws based off emerging trends. This way the United States would not fall so far behind on updating their laws to coincide with technology advancement.
How secured are the sensitive network infrastructures to protect our national security.
Are governance, frameworks, and standards missing? Apparently, the leadership in the information security arena still far from what information security all about.
Reference
United States House of Representatives. (2010). Cybersecurity: DHS’ Role, Federal Efforts and National Policy. Retrieved June 21, 2010, from http://hsc.house.gov/Hearings/index.asp?ID=258
It appears that the administration is not in support of the Lieberman/Collins bill that would create a separate cyber security effort indicating that they would prefer to have it integrated into other security efforts – When you consider that secure infrastructure includes using technology to gain access and compromise actual physical assets such as generators and power systems, how would you see this kind of activity fitting in to a design where cyber security is isolated within DHS?
http://www.govinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=2651&rf=2010-06-19-eg