Private, Public Sectors Look to Each Other to Solve Security Problems
The LA Times story Public, private sectors at odds over cyber security is not your typical high profile security story. Rather than focus on a single data breach or a new vulnerability, it looks at the question of how to address fundamental flaws in existing infrastructure. The answers are not promising.
One of the points of the story is that cybersecurity is not a sufficient focus in the public or private sectors. Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama say much about it in their campaigns, even in their technology policy statements. Meanwhile, most of the Internet infrastructure is privately owned but the private sector claims the problems are too big for it to tackle.
The article points out some step that can be taken. Bruce Schneier, for example, has argued for giving the next cybersecurity czar budget authority and for limiting liability protections to software vendors.
Decentralization is a key design feature of the Internet that has contributed to its success, it would be ironic if decentralized decision making about cybersecurity continued to threaten its progress and continued usefulness.
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