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| White House Declassifies Outline of Cybersecurity Plans
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| from the how-generous dept.
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| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 03, @10:20 (Security)
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/03/1454225/White-House-Declassifies-Outline-of-Cybers|
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An anonymous reader writes "The Obama administration on Tuesday
[0]declassified part of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity
Initiative created during the Bush administration, [1]outlining offensive
and defensive strategies for protecting information networks. The
initiative was originally intended to unify efforts of a number of
government agencies into a comprehensive strategy to protect the nation's
computer networks. 'One area in which the government did officially
disclose new details was Einstein 3, a program to protect civilian
government systems from intrusion by deploying sensors on the networks of
private telecommunications companies. For the first time, the government
disclosed officially that the program would use technology developed by
the NSA, the nation's largest intelligence agency. It also said that the
Department of Homeland Security, which would run the program, would share
malicious code data with the NSA but not the content of communications,
such as e-mails.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/03/03/1454225
Links:
0.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/02/AR2010030202113.html
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/cybersecurity/comprehensive-national-cybersecurity-initiative
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