Cyber Attacks Becoming Top Terror Threat .HW3

Ryan Mulvey

By J. Nicholas Hoover   InformationWeek

February 01, 2012 11:33 AM

Cyber Attacks Becoming Top Terror Threat

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/283368

Cyber Attacks Becoming Top Terror Threat

                What this article is about, I the United States government trying to do everything they can do in order to protect the United States online network. One of the articles big point were, that we should be as concerned with an network attack as we are with terrorist bombs, and weapons.  It also states that we shouldn’t be just worried about other countries accessing the net work , but our own American people. Another huge concern for the government, is other countries terrorist groups gaining access to  what can be lethal United States Networks, such as weapons ,etc.

                The government is working very hard at trying to solve this problem. It is by no means an easy task to accomplish because, there are no warnings that there’s going to be a network attack or to find out what network they will attack. In the article its states “The greatest challenges to protecting against cyber threats, Clapper said, are the difficulty of providing timely and actionable warning of attacks--he cautioned that "many intrusions into U.S. networks are not being detected"--and the complex vulnerabilities within the IT supply chain. Attribution remains a difficult technical challenge, but the government is increasingly sharing threat information among government agencies and with the private sector.” Like the article said there is no knowing when, how and why there will be an attack. The biggest threat to a cyber attack is the “not knowing” factor.

            Also the government is not saying that the threat of a cyber attack is the most important threat to worry about , and we should put it on the top of our list of things to worry about. In the article it states that “Cyber attacks against government agencies and businesses in the United States continue to rise, and cyber threats will one day surpass the danger of terrorism to the United States. Stopping terrorists is the number one priority," said FBI director Robert Mueller. "But down the road, the cyber threat will be the number one threat to the country. I do not think today it is necessarily [the] number one threat, but it will be tomorrow.” This shows the importance of how seriously they are taking cyber attacks, and also showing the importance that it will have in the future.

            This relates to class because we are learning all about how to protect our own computers and the networks we use.  And by learning in class about the possibility of an attack on cyber network, you can truly grasp the reason why the government is placing so much importance to this matter

PS, To professor Lawson, Dont forget you told me you would accept this late because i emailed you and you didnt get back to me.