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August 2006, Government Computer News — Sharing data is crucial to cyberdefense.
Each agency within the Department of Defense (DoD) has frontline responsibility for securing its own IT systems. However, without the ability to share information and coordinate responses, the services’ capacity to respond to incidents is severely hampered. Some DoD resources, such as the Global Information Grid (GIG), stretch across all Defense agencies, requiring a departmentwide response mechanism. The Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations is the specific directorate within the Strategic Command that protects the GIG.
But the directorate and the individual services also receive assistance from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other federal agencies. “We have a very rich relationship with the [DHS] Computer Emergency Response Team (US−CERT),” said Rear Adm. Elizabeth Hight, principal director for operations at the Defense Information Services Agency and deputy director of JTF−GNO.
“We participate and communicate and collaborate with them every day. I find that their willingness to work with us on [what] they’re seeing beyond the DoD’s borders has been a wonderful interagency exchange. We have made a habit of sharing information.” Hight said that US−CERT shares information on topics such as new viruses, other malicious software and techniques being used by botnet masters.
Source: http://www.gcn.com/print/25_25/41696−1.html
August 2006, BBC — Mass e−mail attacker pleads guilty.
David Lennon, 19, who bombarded the UK's Domestic & General Group with 5 million e−mails, causing its server to collapse, was sentenced on Wednesday, August 23, to a two−month curfew after pleading guilty. Lennon was a part−time employee of the company before he was fired in 2003.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5278772.stm
Each agency within the Department of Defense (DoD) has frontline responsibility for securing its own IT systems. However, without the ability to share information and coordinate responses, the services’ capacity to respond to incidents is severely hampered. Some DoD resources, such as the Global Information Grid (GIG), stretch across all Defense agencies, requiring a departmentwide response mechanism. The Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations is the specific directorate within the Strategic Command that protects the GIG.
But the directorate and the individual services also receive assistance from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other federal agencies. “We have a very rich relationship with the [DHS] Computer Emergency Response Team (US−CERT),” said Rear Adm. Elizabeth Hight, principal director for operations at the Defense Information Services Agency and deputy director of JTF−GNO.
“We participate and communicate and collaborate with them every day. I find that their willingness to work with us on [what] they’re seeing beyond the DoD’s borders has been a wonderful interagency exchange. We have made a habit of sharing information.” Hight said that US−CERT shares information on topics such as new viruses, other malicious software and techniques being used by botnet masters.
Source: http://www.gcn.com/print/25_25/41696−1.html
August 2006, BBC — Mass e−mail attacker pleads guilty.
David Lennon, 19, who bombarded the UK's Domestic & General Group with 5 million e−mails, causing its server to collapse, was sentenced on Wednesday, August 23, to a two−month curfew after pleading guilty. Lennon was a part−time employee of the company before he was fired in 2003.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5278772.stm
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