Computer-based network attacks are slowly bleeding U.S. businesses of revenue and market advantage, while the government faces the prospect of losing in an all-out cyberwar, experts told Senators in a hearing on Tuesday.”If the nation went to war today in a cyberwar, we would lose,” said Michael McConnell, executive vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton’s national security business and a former director of national security and national intelligence. “We’re the most vulnerable. We’re the most connected. We have the most to lose.”To read this CNET report in full, see:
news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10458759-245.htmlAlso see:Security expert: U.S. would lose cyberwar [IDG]
The U.S. government, if confronted in a cyberwar today, would not come out on top, a former U.S. director of national intelligence said Tuesday.”If the nation went to war today, in a cyberwar, we would lose,” Mike McConnell told a U.S. Senate committee. “We’re the most vulnerable. We’re the most connected. We have the most to lose.”
www.computerworld.com/s/article/9161278/Security_expert_U.S._would_lose_cyberwarDetermining the motives for cyberattacks can be tricky
Agencies responding to real-time coordinated cyberattacks must focus not only on eliminating the immediate threat, but on identifying the attackers’ motives, a former Defense Department official said during a cybersecurity exercise on Tuesday.Typically, a widespread attack on computer networks and systems involves a number of seemingly unrelated incidents, and connecting the dots is essential for recognizing potential threats and identifying vulnerabilities, said retired Lt. Gen. Harry D. Raduege Jr., chairman of the Deloitte Center for Cyber Innovation. Deloitte LLP hosted the drill in Arlington, Va.
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