Top Cyber Defence Team Being Built By US
It has been stated by Janet Napolitano who is the Homeland Security Secretary, that the United States are actually in the process of building a very unique and specialized cyber defence 
team. The fundamental goal behind this defence team is to literally guard the nation’s public as well as private computer systems.
“We need the best brains we can bring to bear on meeting the challenge,” Napolitano told computer security specialists at a premier RSA Conference.”We are building one of the best teams anywhere, but our success depends in no small part on our ability to collaborate with the private sector.”
Napalitano actually held a National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign content in order to find productive methods in order to convince general computer users about computer safety and online crimes and criminals.”All Americans have an important role to play in securing our computer systems and cyber networks,” Napolitano said.
The general public is able to submit their proposals with regard to cybersecurity awareness. This can be done online at: dhs.gov/cyberchallenge at anytime which is before the end of April next month. The department is actually going to be going as far as backing winning ideas, which can prove quite exciting. The department is currently aiming to place an Einstein computer intrusion detection system on federal networks. This should be accomplished by the end of this year and it shall be placed at twenty one government agencies.
“Even as we are working to deploy Einstein we take very seriously the protection of privacy and civil liberties,” Napolitano said of the system that analyses internet traffic as it flows into or out of federal computer systems.
She has claimed that cyber threats are actually also threats to homeland security. It can be seen as a very positive step that they are taking in order to combat and attempt to counter act online crimes and online attacks. It will be interesting to see what will be achieved by the end of this year and what significance it will have on cybercrime.
