Collective Security: Feds and Business to Work Together on Cybersecurity
ComputerWorld is reporting in Feds Hope to Boost Businesses’ Role in Slowing Cyberattacks that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to collocate workers from the communications and IT industry at a US-CERT facility. The goal is to build better information sharing between the public and private sectors on information security threats. This should be just the beginning of such an endeavor.
Such collaborative programs will improve the monitoring of suspicious Internet activity “so we will be able to better analyze [in] real time what is happening and take steps to mitigate it and have a synchronized and instantaneous response capability,”
according to Gregory Garcia, assistant secretary of cybersecurity and telecommunications at the DHS.
It is becoming more important to understand patterns of attacks and activity across the Internet, not just at a single site. We also need better statistics on security threats. Surveys like the CSI/FBI Computer Crime & Security Survey are a start but they cannot be comprehensive. Unless a single large entity, on the scale of Google, starts to provide comprehensive monitoring of network activity, a collaborative effort like DHS/private sector will be required.
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