President Barack Obama directed a 60-day comprehensive review be conducted of the nation's cyber
security policy and procedures as they relate to national security and securing critical infrastructure.
The review team was comprised of a cross-section of cyber security experts from government, academia
and industry. Their report, Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure was released with recommendations that outline a new way forward
toward building and protecting a reliable and secure national digital infrastructure.
It comes as no surprise that the review panel reports that the federal government is woefully under
prepared for the daily onslaught of cyber-attacks this nation faces. The American people have
been reading headlines that the Chinese government has been stealing our national secrets via
cyber espionage for years. Now it seems you can find stories in the news about how post-Eastern
bloc cybercriminals are raking millions from U.S. citizens every day. The government seems almost
overwhelmed to the point of paralysis with how to handle the problem. Despite a handful of high
profile arrests, hactivist groups like Anonymous continue to take down the websites of the CIA and the
FBI with ease.
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