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Bush Administration's Plan for Cyber-Security Email Monitoring

In an effort to bolster the nation's cyber-security, the Bush administration has plans to create a centralized facility for collecting and examining security-related e-mail and data and will push private network operators to expand their own data gathering, according to an . . . . In an effort to bolster the nation's cyber-security, the Bush administration has plans to create a centralized facility for collecting and examining security-related e-mail and data and will push private network operators to expand their own data gathering, according to an unreleased draft of the plan. The proposed cyber-security Network Operations Center is included in a draft of The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which was developed by the president's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board with input from the private sector and is due to be released Sept. 18. The call for expanded data collection and analysis results from administration concerns that efforts to secure cyber-space are hampered by the lack of a single point of data collection to detect cyber-security incidents and issue rapid warnings, according to the draft strategy, obtained by eWEEK. Critics, however, worry that such a system would be expensive and difficult to manage, and would allow government agencies to expand their surveillance powers. The link for this article located at eWeek is no longer available. . The Obama administration suggests an integrated center for state-of-the-art cyber-defense surveillance to enhance data acquisition methods.. Centralized Security, Cyber Monitoring, Email Threats, Data Analysis, Network Operations. . Anthony Pell

Aug 23, 2002 • Anthony Pell Government