White House to dramatically expand cybersecurity initiative

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/161373/white-house-to-dramatically...

When President Obama took office, one of his talking points was that he wanted to analyze and probably overhaul the nation's computer
security systems, following a wave of attacks targeted military and
government computer networks that really has yet to let up.

Now details of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), colloquially known by the code-name "Einstein," have been made public.




As the Wall Street Journal notes, the current Homeland Security-run cybersecurity initiative has been weak at best. The new system brings in additional help in the form of
the National Security Agency to overhaul and update the program.

The new CNCI is broad and, in the eyes of many, invasive. It is designed to monitor all forms of electronic communication, including web browsing
and email, with "indicators of cyber attacks" being passed on the the
NSA for further analysis.

How private will your messages be once the new Einstein goes live? Hard to say. The Obama administration says that personal and identifying details will be stripped out of data
that's handed over to the NSA... but wouldn't doing that simply make it
that much harder to figure out who's behind a genuine threat to the
country? Privacy concerns have become almost epidemic in recent years,
but this move sounds an awful lot like a "No really, you can trust us
not to abuse our power" play. The Einstein system was originally
designed for use on internal federal computer networks but, if these
plans are followed though upon, will eventually be expanded to
"critical infrastructure spaces" -- which could mean the entirety of
the Internet.

The nitty gritty details of the CNCI Intitiative are epic, to say the least: You can read all 2,500-plus words of it here, but don't expect to grok much of it. Full of talk of "mitigating supply chain risk at levels commensurate with the criticality of their
networks," this is government-speak at its most impressive.

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