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This article presents an interview with experts from the public and private sectors about the U.S. federal government's cybersecurity priorities as of October 11, 2004. Overall, they said that current information security policies put disproportionate emphasis on system security and not enough on network security. Furthermore, they said money for information security is the first to get squeezed when budgets are tight. One person suggested that federal officials set security standards for the software industry to follow. And nearly all agreed that officials at federal agencies need to use more automated methods and fewer manual means for managing information security. The experts interviewed were Kenneth Ammon, president and co-founder of NetSec Inc.; Bruce Brody, associate chief information officer for cybersecurity at the Energy Department; Bob Dix, staff director of the House Government Reform Committee's Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census Subcommittee; Dennis McCallam, technical fellow for Defense enterprise solutions at Northrop Grumman Information Technology; Edward Schwartz, senior architect at netForensics Inc.; David Thomason, director of security engineering at Sourcefire Inc.; and Amit Yoran, who at the time was director of the Homeland Security Department's National Cyber Security Division. |
