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Bush's Cyber Secrets Dilemma

Andy Greenberg writes on Forbes.com:

There's a problem facing the Bush administration: It has $30 billion to spend over the next five to seven years to keep the U.S. safe from hackers and cyberspies. But to extend that protection to the nation's critical infrastructure--including banks, telecommunications and transportation--it needs the cooperation of the private sector.

And among corporate executives, even those who want to help are wary: How can the business world participate in the government's cyber initiative, they ask, if the government remains intensely secretive?

"There's very little transparency as to the government's plans," says Bruce McConnell, a former information technology policy director for the White House's Office of Management and Budget who now works as a private consultant. "To protect critical infrastructure, we need to create trustworthy mechanisms for sharing information. That can't happen when one side's position is secret."

posted by Fergie @ 4/11/2008 06:29:00 PM