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This is related to something I'm researching. To be blunt the intersection of government and civilian infrastructure is all muddled up. The theory is that DHS
by mpyne 13y ago
This is related to something I'm researching. To be blunt the intersection of government and civilian infrastructure is all muddled up.
The theory is that DHS helps defend the civilian Internet (where "helps" seems to be as directive as it gets, since so much of the affected infrastructure is in private hands).
In the meantime NSA and DoD are looking at cyber security very seriously, but through the military-tinted lens.
It is a lot easier to differentiate a law enforcement problem from a military problem domestically when in the meatspace, especially without the attribution and jurisdictional issues that pop up with cybersecurity.
It doesn't help when laws intended to clarify the process by which private and government entities cooperate for the security of the Internet get muddled with RIAA IP protection laws and subsequently get angrily tossed out of Congress. As it stands it all seems to be still quite foggy.
- zimbatm 13y agoAre you operating in an official capacity ? If you have any links or materials I would be interested.
- mpyne 13y agoSemi-official. I'm in a student status so it's a personal research project but under the aegis of a government institute. Presidential Policy Directive 21 is where the White House tries to set policy and agency "swim lanes" for critical civilian infrastructure (including cyber). Reading it is amazing just seeing the number of agencies that are involved in some fashion with IT/cyber/etc. DHS themselves handle this function under the term "Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource" (CIKR) support. There's also various national strategy documents relating to cyberspace. As for the military side DoD has a bunch of strategies as well. Anything operational or tactical is probably classified but you can certainly Google for "DoD Instruction" + cyber (and likewise for "DoD Directive") and find their public governing policies. The problem of ensuring there is a formal way for government to work together with private entities to secure cyberspace was intended to be fixed by the CISPA law that had been proposed in Congress but as I mentioned that had issues (some real, some a "taint" from SOPA/PIPA). AFAIK there is still no clarity here, and the White House can't simply give out a dictat via Executive Order for all of this.