Next-Gen 'Einstein' Coming In Six Months
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Thursday that a "live exercise" of the next-generation of the department's automated process for collecting and sharing security information -- referred to internally and by many in the data security community as "Einstein" -- should be ready within six months. The cyber threat detection and mitigation program is currently operating in its second generation as part of a larger, largely classified Bush administration plan to heighten security of federal computer networks, which was brought to light in January and has been the subject of several congressional hearings. He said Einstein has been deployed within DHS and will be rolled out in other agencies "in short order."
Chertoff, who was speaking to participants of a cyber threat simulation staged by consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, also reflected on the government's systematic strategy for "reducing, if not eliminating" the cyber security problem. He said the danger falls into three categories: (1) Information being stolen, be it sensitive military data, financial material, or diplomatic or business plans. (2) Attacks that flood or topple a network -- like denial-of-service attacks on the domain name system. (3) Corruption or changes to a system that make it unusable and undermine public confidence and trust. Read more about Chertoff's talk in CongressDaily's PM Edition.
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