Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Cyber security committee about to form

Experts say that hackers are one step ahead well duh. They wouldn’t be called hackers if it was easy. It’s funny identity theft has been happening for years and all of a sudden when national security is threatened the government wants to create a national emergency. Although finally putting together a cyber committee is ultimately a good idea the focus should first be the security of the people. Even national government security is understandable although the focus should be resolving the intimate issues first. The article did bring out a good point about companies, stating that the business industry needs to portray their vulnerability in order for the issue to be resolved. The article also advised that new strong virus protections would be needed. However, this article neglected to mention the cost of this operation and how much of the cost would fall to the citizens. Sure, they can design a better protection program but would this program be accessible to the all citizens or just citizens from a certain class. They concluded that forming a committee will solve the problem but many committees were formed before hand and as they came closer to a solution the hackers evolved as well becoming more elusive. I suggest a different approach a united effort of business and common man. In reality a committee should have been formed a long time ago, but this time the tactics need to be different how about they start from the bottom and work their way up instead of the other way around that has consistently failed them in the past.

1 comment:

TX Reporter Chick said...

I agree with Danagray. I mean why all of a sudden is cyber identity being taken seriously when it has been going on for years now, but since it has only started affecting national security they’re going to take extreme measures to stop it. This should’ve been stopped when it first started, not pushed off to the side till it came to be as bad as it is now. She also makes a good point when she says that they failed to mention the cost of their program that is supposed to “solve” the problem. Is this program going to be accessible to all citizens or a certain class? That is something that should've been included in the article. Citizens need to know that kind of stuff. Committee's should have been started a lot earlier because the longer it takes them to get this whole situation solved only gives the hatchers more time to advance and gives them the ability to figure out ways to overcome whatever program we come up with to prevent cyber identity.