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Abstracts for Cyber Crime Summit
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A Unique Challenge Requiring An Innovative Response
As our lives have become inexorably intertwined with the computer and other digital devices, Americans have been slow to understand the magnitude of change both for the better – and worse. E-everything has brought new meaning to the term “generation gap”; and without the competitive edge of technology, businesses cannot begin to compete.
We have not scratched the surface of understanding the impact of technology on deviant behavior both criminal and non-criminal. We do know that computers, and the information in them, have expanded the ability of criminals to perpetrate traditional crimes while posing huge hurtles to the criminal justice community.
It is important to look at how the challenge is distinct from other law enforcement challenges, to recognize the macro issues involved, and to ensure that there is appropriate focus to addressing the long-term problems as well as the immediate needs of the enforcement communities.
Successful response to these challenges requires new paradigms. Ones that can overcome many of the obstacles that traditionally limit cooperation and collaboration amongst the stakeholders. Criminal justice systems at all levels, the academic community, private sector businesses, our schools systems, libraries, and parent groups are all stakeholders- and must be factored into the solutions.
Developing these new paradigms will be difficult because traditional decision processes will be applied to suggested changes when, in fact, these processes themselves require changing. Limited by laws, regulations, tradition and historical thinking, post-incident response entities such as law enforcement, prosecutors, and the judiciary are ill equipped to carry a role in the long-term solutions.
Outreach to the other stakeholders, forming true partnerships, and sharing successes will initiate changes which can lead to solving the immediate challenges of identifying, investigating, and prosecuting computer- related crimes and to the changes required for long-term problem solving.
Cyber Security and National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
Vice Chair, President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
For the foreseeable future, two things will be true: We will rely upon cyberspace to run our critical infrastructure and the government will seek a continuing broad partnership to develop, implement and refine a National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
Mr. Schmidt will discuss the various aspects of the strategy to secure cyberspace and the things that we all can do to help secure it.
--A National Cyberspace Response System: a program to coordinate and strengthen government and industry activities to analyze, warn, share information, respond to incidents, and recover from major cyber events;
--A National Cyberspace Vulnerability and Threat Reduction Program: efforts lead by government and critical infrastructure industries to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in key networks, as well as activities to deter threats to cyberspace systems.
--A National Cyberspace Security Awareness and Education Program: activities to make several diverse audiences understand better the risk of cyberspace attacks and ways to make them more difficult; programs to train cyberspace security professionals;
--Securing Government Cyberspace Systems: efforts to increase the security of government systems and networks, including both the civilian systems for which OMB is responsible and the national security systems for which the Secretary of Defense and the DCI are responsible;
--International Cooperation and National Security: efforts lead by the State Department to coordinate international cooperative efforts in cyber security, both bilaterally and multilaterally, and efforts by other national security agencies.
FBI InfraGard:
The Pervasive and Crucial Role of the Private Sector in Critical Infrastructure Protection
We are a nation at war, with our greatest strength our freedom. To protect that freedom, American business and private sector must be an active part of protecting our nation's critical infrastructures, including our business and economic infrastructure. Every company in America should have a role within that takes on the responsibility of building trusted relationships and communication channels with Federal, State and local government and law enforcement. Just as every FBI field office in the country has an FBI InfraGard Coordinator, every business needs to fill this role as well - to enable information to be where it is needed -- immediately.
InfraGard, at 6500 members and growing, is the premier public-private partnership critical infrastructure protection. The establishment of the new Department of Homeland Security provides a tremendous opportunity for InfraGard to leverage the inter-agency information exchange facilitated by the Department of Homeland Security while still maintaining and continuing to grow the trusted relationships established with FBI agents within local FBI field offices.
This talk will address the ways that are being explored by the InfraGard Executive Board, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to position InfraGard to achieve optimal benefit to members and to our Nation. The talk will explore current and projected roles and responsibilities of the private sector and the issues that every company, and every citizen, must face as we are faced with a networked nation where cyber vulnerabilities affect all critical infrastructures -- making our vulnerabilities severe, not well-understood, and global.
InfraGard is gaining strength by the minute - we are here to stay... not only as the premier public-private critical infrastructure protection partnership, but as a concept and a culture of information exchange to protect our country.