NSA ill-suited for domestic cybersecurity role
Rated • 1 review • government, computer security, civil liberties, telecommunications • examiner.com
from the page: "In one of those under-the-table announcements that Washington power players like to make on Friday afternoons, the Obama administration announced its sweeping new 'Cyberspace Policy Review.'
Regardless of the shape of America's new cyber policy, the National Security Agency could end up playing an expanded role in America's private sector cybersecurity. NSA has long been involved with the security of US telecoms infrastucture, through such esoteric entities as the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee (NSTISSC), which coordinates security for national-level telecommunications infrastructure.
Nonetheless, giving more responsibility for domestic and private sector cybersecurity to NSA--a secretive, hidebound culture incapable of keeping up with innovation, or even working with industry--is a bad idea."
Regardless of the shape of America's new cyber policy, the National Security Agency could end up playing an expanded role in America's private sector cybersecurity. NSA has long been involved with the security of US telecoms infrastucture, through such esoteric entities as the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee (NSTISSC), which coordinates security for national-level telecommunications infrastructure.
Nonetheless, giving more responsibility for domestic and private sector cybersecurity to NSA--a secretive, hidebound culture incapable of keeping up with innovation, or even working with industry--is a bad idea."
