$100M is for the first phase, which I would think would be the initial deployment of intrusions sensors with out of band data feeds, and the building of a baseline traffic model. The real question is why do any critical control networks ever touch anything remotely connected to a public network? Laziness - that's why.
Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > Because no-one who could do it for less can afford to respond to government > contracts, and make sure they comply with all the applicable laws and > regulations, and keep the sort of records, and be prepared for the audits of > said records, required. > > As soon as you do business with the govt, the overhead goes through the roof. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Patrick Giagnocavo [mailto:patr...@zill.net] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:02 PM >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies >> >> andrew.wallace wrote: >>> Article: >>> >> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487045450045753529838504631 >> 08.html >> Why does it cost $100 million to install and configure OpenBSD on a >> bunch of old systems? >> >> --Patrick >
