http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/obama-s-free-to-bomb-syria-but-is-limited-on-cybersecurity-20130828
By Matthew Cooper
National Journal
August 28, 2013
As President Obama readies to strike the Syrian regime, it's worth
thinking about that other defense problem--cybersecurity--and what it says
about Washington in the Obama era.
On Wednesday, the capital will be consumed by the March on Washington, as
well it ought, and the looming battle with Syria--although not at the same
time, for surely the missiles won't fly at the very moment Obama salutes
nonviolence.
But the country's efforts to beef up cybersecurity are stymied, even after
thefts at the National Security Agency and the Army have made Edward
Snowden and Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning emblems of computer
vulnerability. This week shows why.
On Wednesday, while the marchers march and the Pentagon plans, a federal
agency in Maryland called the National Institute for Standards and
Technology will be issuing a draft report for cybersecurity
standards--basically a list of best practices for businesses and other
institutions to follow as they try to protect their networks.
NIST, as it's called, is the much-admired scientific agency that runs the
atomic clock and comes up with standards for everything from weights and
measures to medical devices. It doesn't regulate, but it's been around in
some form since the early days of the Republic and its word is listened to
closely by industry and government.
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