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Cyber defence still uncertain:NSA veteran
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010, 18:20 IST |
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London: There is no method or innovation till now, that can call itself a full proof cyber defense. Since the world has been living with this threat for a long time, it has learnt to deal with it. Presscott Winter a veteran of the National security Agency (NSA) said the U.S. government's defenses against foreign cyber-foes are "very much a close-run thing" and now it has toughened its response to attack reports William Maclean.
According to Prescott Winter, a former Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer for the NSA cyber defense is not bullet proof. He said, "The fundamental issue here is not absolute prevention or absolute deterrence, its resilience. It's the ability to identify what's happening and respond to it quickly."
Winter said that the security industry's hindering of the powerful Conficker virus was an example of cooperative resilience by the public and private sector.Speaking about Washington's position in the cyber defence, Presscot Winter, the Chief Technology Officer for public sector operations at ArcSight said, "I would say that in the best cases we are almost keeping up. It's very much a close-run thing and on any given day you're not so sure we're winning. But at the end of the day, we are responding with resiliency, so I have to be somewhat optimistic."
"Everybody wants to talk about electrons flashing around in the dark, spooky signals and things like that. That's not what's holding us back, its management issues, its leadership, willpower and focus." he said, pointing out to the "large, complex, diffuse organizational structures" of the espionage community.
For a long time now U.S has accused the Chinese and Russians of using cyber attacks to try to steal American trade secrets.
In March, Google put an end to its mainland Chinese-language portal and began rerouting searches to its Hong Kong site, after cyber attacks were said to come from China. Analysts said those attacks were sophisticated, and abetted by the Chinese military. China has denied its People's Liberation Army took part in Internet hacking.
Commenting on the ties between patriotic Chinese computer enthusiasts, and the Chinese state and its army cyber schools, winter replied, "As is true with many other features of Chinese society, there is a very high degree of coherence across those groups."
