Various news media are ramping up coverage of the federal networks “cybersecurity” policies. Personally I loathe anything starting with “Cyber”, but the review will be completed today and the report will be sent to the presidents desk. Some other media coverage are items like:
There have been recent media reports of infiltration of water and power companies by attackers. I’m not sure what the federal role would be without increased regulation. This is likely to be met with resistance from industries that see pervasive compromises in their enterprise networks. Government networks are just large enterprise networks, protecting their secrets the same way a company protects their secrets.