Well, if we are in a cyberwar this may be one reason why we're losing it:
Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing.
“There is no cyberwar,” Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.
“I think that is a terrible metaphor and I think that is a terrible concept,” Schmidt said. “There are no winners in that environment.”
Instead, Schmidt said the government needs to focus its cybersecurity efforts to fight online crime and espionage.
Unfortunately Czar Schmidt would not recognize a Cyberwar if it landed on his head.
ReplyDeleteFor example, he worked for a CyLab "insider threat" for five years but never had a clue.