Presidential Policy Directive United States Cyber Incident Coordination

[HardOCP News]

At long last, the White House has finally released new guidelines that outline how the federal government plans to respond to "cyber incidents." But, as with anything the government puts in place, it sounds like a whole lot of talk, not a lot of action.

United States preparedness efforts have positioned the Nation to manage a broad range of threats and hazards effectively. Every day, Federal law enforcement and those agencies responsible for network defense in the United States manage, respond to, and investigate cyber incidents in order to ensure the security of our information and communications infrastructure. The private sector and government agencies have a shared vital interest in protecting the Nation from malicious cyber activity and managing cyber incidents and their consequences. The nature of cyberspace requires individuals, organizations, and the government to all play roles in incident response. Furthermore, effective incident response efforts will help support an open, interoperable, secure, and reliable information and communications infrastructure that promotes trade and commerce, strengthens international security, fosters free expression, and reinforces the privacy and security of our citizens.

 

[Ur_Mom]

We need to make a committee that will meet to create a commission that will design a team that will investigate the cyber incidents to start an investigation to write a report to pass to the oversight committee for proposal to the President. Shouldn't take more than 3-4 years per incident.

The government is failing because in a time where things happen in seconds, they want to do things with so much red tape that it will take months/years to do anything about a threat that has long passed. Take out all the red tape, all the bureaucracy and let experts take care of it. The government is not efficient enough to take care of things like this.

 

[Zion Halcyon]

I can sum up their entire document in 3 words....



"Blame the Russians."

 

[viscountalpha]

More old phogies who have no clue how to deal with and handle modern security issues. Nothing new.