Cyberspace and National Security
December 29, 2008 Computer Safety Tip
Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security, opened his lecture with a mention of how Estonia’s Internet was 
brought down, and how the Russian invasion of Georgia was manipulated in cyberspace.
He mentioned a probable breach that could have exposed 40 million financial account holders. The dilemma seemed to have to do with a problem involving domain name integrity deep within the Internet, but it could have caused further loss of self-assurance in financial institutions, already an issue with the financial crisis.
He said that national cybersecurity policy should stress three areas: – frontlines of defense and firewalls; anticipating the full range of possible threats; understanding the social environment, such as discontented employees and (by inference) asymmetry. He stressed the nature of a public-private partnership.
