Taking Our Eyes Off the Ball: Has Fighting Cyber Crime in the US Left Us Ill-Prepared for Cyber War?

Posted April 30, 2011 | |

Fighting cyber crime in the US has made us ill-prepared to fight a cyber war. This may seem to be hyperbole, but it is most definitely not. Cyber crime has been a recognized issue for 35 years and has consumed much of our time and energy for (at least) the last 10. In response to the cyber crime threat, we have seen the passage of a HIPAA compliance mandate (April 2003), SOX (July 2002), and breach notification laws in 46 US states. We have seen the establishment of a plethora of information assurance programs in academia.

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Jeffrey Ingalsbe
Bille Shoemaker
Dan Shoemaker
Dan Shoemaker is the Director of the Institute for Cyber Security Studies, a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence, at UDM. Dr. Shoemaker is a well-known speaker and writer in the area of cyber security. He is a professor at UDM, where he has been the Chair of the computer and information systems program since 1985. He is also a visiting professor in cyber security at London Southbank University. His PhD is from the… Read More
Terry Mead
Nancy Mead
Nancy Mead is senior member of the technical staff in the Networked Survivable Systems Program of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and a faculty member in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Mead is currently involved in the study of survivable systems architectures and the development of professional infrastructure for software engineers. Her research interests are in the areas of software… Read More
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