Lack of cybersecurity specialists concerning
There is going to be more demand for people with information technology skills. It is a huge problem we have in this country—not having enough people with adequate skills and training.
The need to make information security should soon be second nature.
A new strategy aims to be a "living document" that will grow and change as the technology changes. The document will contain sections that address home users' security and network security issues. It also will categorize critical infrastructure issues by industry, such as water filtration, electricity or telecommunications.
Government and industry also must educate each other about infrastructure vulnerabilities and threats through information-sharing analysis centers (ISACs) and other partnerships.
Although about 90 percent of the nation's infrastructures are owned and operated by the private sector, the scale at which the private sector looks at vulnerability assessments is very narrow from a national infrastructure-protection standpoint.
Finding and retaining skilled workers to protect the military's critical infrastructures also must be a priority, according to the Armed Services Procurement Subcommittee.
The military is facing a crucial shortage in information security specialists, in part because workers with those skills can earn more money in the private sector. It's a challenge to keep that level of competence in the military. They're still on the cutting edge, but ... it's extremely difficult.
They plan to propose a new scholarship program in which the federal government would pay the undergraduate and graduate tuitions of students seeking careers in information security. Those students in turn would spend several years as "cyber warriors" in the military.
Information dominance will be a military buzzword in the coming years because terrorist networks and enemy states that could never match U.S. strength on the battlefield are looking to cyber warfare as a central strategy.
All that smart technology that allows domination of any battlefield at any time is all computer-dependent. They've never fought this kind of threat before.
A failure to protect the nation's critical infrastructures could have disastrous consequences, both at home and on battlefields abroad, with not knowing when or where the next attack will occur.
They tell us this: Security will indeed involve information systems.
You will find much more on this topic at WorldsLargestNetwork.com
| |||||||
 | |||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
|
WorldsLargestNetwork.com
