cybersec

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A secure cyberspace is critical to our prosperity.

National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, Draft Final Report 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/NSTICstrategy_041511.pdf

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The FBI, with our partners in the intelligence community, believe the cyber terrorism threat is real and is rapidly expanding. Terrorists have shown a clear interest in pursuing hacking skills. And they will either train their own recruits or hire outsiders, with an eye toward coupling physical attacks with cyber attacks.

-Robert S. Mueller, Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation

http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/mueller-to-u-s-congress-fbi-s-focus-has-shifted

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We cannot afford to allow cyberspace to be a sanctuary where real and potential adversaries can marshal forces and capabilities to use against us and our allies. This is not a hypothetical danger.

-General Keith Alexander Commander, United States Cyber Command

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12768617

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There is a real dearth of doctrine and policy in the world of cyberspace.

-Robert E. Schmidle Jr., Deputy Commander, United States Cyber Command

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=341

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Most of the destructive tools being developed haven’t been used; we need to use this window of opportunity to develop defenses.

-General Keith Alexander Commander, United States Cyber Command http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g2PNEhqFVvKQRnXzhi4iKZ7p12_g?docId=CNG.caf89b431a9c66f3e75cf5c8f5b2c68e.b1

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When it comes to national security, I think this represents the battleground for the future. I've often said that I think the potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber attack.

-Leon Panetta, Director, Central Intelligence Agency

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-intel-hearing-20110211,0,2209934.story

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I guess if we could somehow link an IP address to every atom, we might begin to run into problems.

-Rod Beckstrom, Chief of Internet Corporate for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) regarding IPv6

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110123/tc_afp/usitinternetsoftwareicann_20110123051605

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There’s lots of different committees that have a piece of cybersecurity, and that’s part of the problem that Congress has dealing with the issue.

-Representative Mac Thornberry http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/14842/incoming-house-speaker-taps-thornberry-to-lead-cybersecurity-initiative/

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If you were to ask me, what is the biggest challenge that we currently face? It’s generating the people that we need to do this mission.

-General Keith Alexander Commander, United States Cyber Command

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4949

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The reality is that the Internet still faces something of a 'trust' issue, and it will not reach its full potential until users and consumers feel more secure than they do today when they go online.

-Gary Locke, Secretary of Commerce

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375454,00.asp

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No single federal agency 'owns' the issue of cybersecurity. In fact, the federal government does not uniquely own cybersecurity. It is a national and global challenge with far-reaching consequences that requires a cooperative, comprehensive effort across the public and private sectors.

-Doug Maughan, Program Manager for Cybersecurity R&D, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Maughan, Doug. (2010, February). The need for a national cybersecurity research and development agenda. Communications of the ACM, 53(2), 29-31, <http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1646353.1646365>.

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The agreement does not give the military authority to operate inside the U.S. in the event of a cyber attack. What it does do is formalize the process by which DOD and DHS will work together to protect the nation's cybernetworks and increases the clarity of focus of our respective roles and responsibilities.

-Rear Admiral Michael Brown, Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications, US Department of Homeland Security

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9J4QNM00.htm

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We're not going to have two NSAs, we're going to have one NSA that can appropriately be used for defense purposes but also appropriately used for civilian purposes.

-Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security

http://www.latimes.com/technology/sns-ap-us-napolitano,0,5256914.story

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We would not be devoting hundreds of millions of pounds extra to this area at a time of great spending restraint, and cuts in other areas of our national security, unless we thought it really needed it.

-William Hague, British Foreign Secretary

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s3042308.htm

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The warnings are over. It could happen tomorrow.

-Mike McConnell, Former Director of National Intelligence & Former Director of National Security Agency

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/09/fmr-intelligence-director-new-cyberattack-may-be-worse-than-9-11/63849/

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Finding 4: Clarification of Roles and Responsibilities. Substantial improvements since Cyber Storm I were observed in the interagency integration and coordination of cyber event response with senior leadership across interagency boundaries. Continued development and clarification of roles, responsibilities, and communication channels should further enhance our capabilities.

-CYBER STORM II Final Report, Department of Homeland Security 

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/csc_ncsd_cyber_stormII_final09.pdf (page 3)

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My personal view is that it is probably wise to legislate some authority to the President, to take emergency measures for limited periods of time, with clear reporting to Congress, when he feels as if he has to take these measures. But I would put the bar really high as to when these kinds of authorities might take place.

-Michael Hayden, Former CIA Director

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-internet-security,0,4054676.story