Security experts: US trailing on cybersecurity

摘要

The US is lagging behind in its cyberdefence policy and urgently needs improvement, according to Congressional testimony given this month. A hearing held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence found inadequate links between public sector homeland security efforts and private sector components of the critical national infrastructure. Paul Kurtz, former senior director for Critical National Infrastructure Protection for the White House Homeland Security Council, praised the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative (CNCI), formed to help protect federal government computer systems, but said that its work was belated, and had been hindered by bureaucratic infighting at the Department of Homeland Security.