[1]White House picks new chief to overlook cyber weapons group
The White House has a new leader of a largely secretive government
group that decides whether software and hardware vulnerabilities
should be withheld from the public to help the government conduct
cyber operations.
Grand Schneider, the federal chief information security officer and
senior director at the National Security Council, was named head of
the Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP) board.
I hope they mean "overlook" in the sense of supervising and not in the
sense of "to look upon with an evil eye". Anyway, the article continues
…
The group determines if the government should withhold so-called
zero day flaws, which are previously undiscovered security bugs that
have not yet been patched. The government uses the board to decide
which flaws it can use to conduct surveillance - or to disclose to
the public.
But, in withholding the flaws for cyber-operations, companies and
citizens can be left vulnerable if the vulnerabilities are
discovered by others.
For me the question comes down to who will be damaged more by the
vulnerabilities. More often than not business and western liberal
democracies are at greater risk, so the US government potentially
damages those they are meant to protect.
What do you think?
__________________________________________________________________
My original entry is here: [2]White House picks new chief to overlook
cyber weapons group. It posted Sun, 24 Jun 2018 01:37:38 +0000.
Filed under: business,
References
1.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/white-house-picks-new-chief-to-overlook-cyber-weapons-group/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
2.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1232
