Sunday, April 19, 2009

Ch. 6 Article: Should the President have the Power to Unplug?

Hoover, N.J. (2008) Should The President Have the Power to Unplug? Information Week, 19.

The U.S. government is considering significant changes to federal cybersecurity regulations. The bill would give the president explicit power to turn off computer networks in the interest of national security. The bill and related legislation came after the Defense Department said it spent $100 million in just six months fighting cyberattacks. The White House nears the completion of a national cybersecurity review. The major attack on the Internet’s root DNS servers, are targeted at federal networks, which would make it necessary for the president to order a shutdown of significant networks. Some attacks have been addressed by blocking certain IP’s. Unfortunately this doesn’t always address all cyberattacks.
This article relates to this chapter because it relates to data mining. The U.S. government uses some type of data mining to view what goes on in the cyber world. The book addressed the issue that data mining encounters privacy issues. The government needs to have business intelligence so that it can protect the U.S. citizens but this can also become intrusive. It is difficult to have the right balance because people have different perspectives on this issue.

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