Security
through strength is no longer a completely reliable mission statement.
The cyber-threat is a great equalizer. There can be an adversary from
anywhere in the world.
Though people tend to discount the cyber-threat since it occurs slowly and there is no tangible evidence regarding potential attacks, the risk of cyber-warfare damaging American national security is nonetheless real. American Thinker interviewed former Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff, former CIA Director Michael Hayden, former FBI Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry, and Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to get their thoughts on this new and dangerous threat.
Henry feels that America is currently not winning the battle. Part of the problem is that people are complacent and are not taking the cyber-threat seriously enough. "A company loses billions of dollars of R&D, but no one is jumping up and down. When you tell someone a foreign organization is in a computer network, it does not resonate. An adversary has access to computer networks and can steal all the data. The integrity of the data can be changed and manipulated. For example, moving a decimal point to the left or right. Think about it: everything is now done on computers, and most people do not keep paper backups." Chertoff agrees but sees an additional problem: that people regard the cyber-threat as a complicated technical issue with too much jargon and too many acronyms.
Though people tend to discount the cyber-threat since it occurs slowly and there is no tangible evidence regarding potential attacks, the risk of cyber-warfare damaging American national security is nonetheless real. American Thinker interviewed former Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff, former CIA Director Michael Hayden, former FBI Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry, and Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to get their thoughts on this new and dangerous threat.
Henry feels that America is currently not winning the battle. Part of the problem is that people are complacent and are not taking the cyber-threat seriously enough. "A company loses billions of dollars of R&D, but no one is jumping up and down. When you tell someone a foreign organization is in a computer network, it does not resonate. An adversary has access to computer networks and can steal all the data. The integrity of the data can be changed and manipulated. For example, moving a decimal point to the left or right. Think about it: everything is now done on computers, and most people do not keep paper backups." Chertoff agrees but sees an additional problem: that people regard the cyber-threat as a complicated technical issue with too much jargon and too many acronyms.
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