Information Security/Cyber Security

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/threat-spectacular-cyberattack-looms-official-185505164.html;_ylt=AotMcHbqlggVcFMe.957QkaiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTQ2N2JvbjJxBG1pdANDTkJDIEZlYXR1cmUgMgRwa

Ok, so I put that link in a draft a few weeks ago, fully intending on writing something about it sooner. I haven't gotten back to it until now, in the midst of watching "Live Free or Die Hard" again. For those of you not familiar with this movie, there is plenty to find on the Internet, so I will only say that it's about my line of work. I also checked them out today, and I find something very alarming here. References to the movie, which came out in 2007, cite sources that are even older , some even predate 9/11, and detail concern over an attack vector similar in nature. Fast forward to today, and the article above, and you can clearly see that not much has really changed in the minds of those that have the power to make a difference. Sure, there are good things being done, new government agencies, regulation proposals and updates, but underneath all that is still the same skepticism that was present back then. I'm not as concerned about the government end here, they seem to be on board now, albeit typically slow in getting things moving, no, I'm very concerned about industry here. Within the last year, a cyber security bill has been put forth to protect the nations critical infrastructure, but it has failed to pass. I can only assume that lobbyists and special interest groups are purposely trying to make the bill fail, and that leads right back to the industries that the bill is trying to protect in the first place.

We can read headlines that are indicators that there is a growing threat, the nations leaders are actively saying this, yet the CEO's and senior management of the industries that most certainly will fall first are still resistant. Now let us suppose that the U.S. fails to protect this before an attack happens, what about the other nations? Once a successful attack happens, there is no way that the attacker would stop there. No, just like conventional warfare, they would then take the next step and take down another nation, then another, then another. We, the protectors of networks, have a global responsibility, not just a local one.