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“Why is nobody crowing about ‘Critical National Infrastructure’?” (http://goo.gl/aSe4L at Computerworld) #cybersecurity #cni

2012-07-12 11:16:46+00:00

Why is nobody crowing about ‘Critical National Infrastructure’?

O2 went dark; RBS/NatWest/Ulster Bank died. Surely the Government ought to tell us what to do? Much cybersecurity planning is couched in terms of we must protect critical national infrastructure – but when a bank goofs a software upgrade and commits transactional suicide for a week (or more, see Ulster Bank) – and when an entire phone network loses internet connectivity that is the lifeblood of modern commerce – you would think that someone in authority would be jumping up and down saying that this was evidence that the private sector could not be trusted to deliver critical national infrastructure and that banking and telco infrastructure ought to be nationalised, standardised or at least put under central government regulation to ensure that this does not happen again. But they’re (apparently) not doing that. Why not? Partly because they don’t see it that way […]
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