Pentagon Criticized For Not Doing More to Protect Homeland From Cyberattacks

“The Defense Department declaring that it will only be responsible for protecting its own computer networks and that the private sector must fend for itself would be like telling U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh that an air assault is coming and it must go out and buy its own fighter jets and antiaircraft guns.

So said Richard Clarke, former national coordinator for security and counterterrorism coordinator under three presidents, at an American Bar Association speech.

Neither the Pentagon nor the U.S. government has anything resembling a strategy when it comes to protecting the nation’s computer networks — including their own, said Clarke, who now works for Good Harbor consulting, and has written a book, Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It.
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