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Cybersecurity in the Private Sector: The Nations Businesses Manage a Significant Share of Online Activity Related to National Security and Must Play a Larger Role in Ensuring the Overall Integrity of the System (Cybersecurity)

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Title: Cybersecurity in the Private Sector: The Nations Businesses Manage a Significant Share of Online Activity Related to National Security and Must Play a Larger Role in Ensuring the Overall Integrity of the System (Cybersecurity)
Author : Issues in Science and Technology
Release Date : January 22, 2011
Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 227 KB

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The United States is facing major cyber attacks by criminals and agents of foreign governments, with attacks penetrating the military establishment and the private sector alike. The need to better protect military systems is well recognized. But protecting the private sector has drawn less attention, and even some resistance. Yet protecting the private sector is increasingly critical, because the United States, more than most if not all other nations, draws heavily on private corporations for ensuring national security. Corporations manufacture most of the nation's arms. Corporations produce most of the software and hardware for the computers the government uses. And corporations, under contract with the government, carry out many critical security functions, including the collection and processing of intelligence and the conduct of covert operations. The heavy reliance on the private sector for security, including cybersecurity, was accentuated during the Bush administration, which contracted out significant parts of missions that previously were carried out in-house. This trend has been only slightly scaled back during the Obama administration. In short, it is now almost impossible to imagine a secure United States in which security is provided only to the computers and Internet used by the public sector.