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Global Network Security Forecast: Not So Sunny and Bright

Allan Holmes writes on GovExec Tech Insider Blog:

The United States, as well as any other nation hooked into the Internet, is losing the battle against cyberthieves and hackers looking to commit crimes and steal sensitive, and possibly classified, information from networks. And it doesn't look like we will be able to improve the situation much in the near future.

That sobering assessment comes from cybersecurity expert Seymour Goodman, who was in Washington, D.C., yesterday to give a talk on securing the Internet at the Hudson Institute. Goodman, a professor of international affairs and computing at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, was frank about the extremely difficult path nations face in trying to secure the Internet. In fact he was downright apologetic.

posted by Fergie @ 8/07/2007 02:56:00 PM