Information management, and information assurance in particular, may be more mundane than other software topics but it is part of the foundation of all systems, according to Kelly Miller, chief systems engineer of the National Security Agency. Where Darwin once said the creature that survives is not the smartest or the strongest but the one most adaptable to change, Miller said, “In the Information Age we’re faced with, the survivors will be those who have the most assured information.” It takes the same skill set to defend networks as to exploit them, he said. But the emphasis is not equal—it only takes one vulnerability to exploit a system, but to protect a system all the vulnerabilities have to be guarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The size of the problem is breathtaking, with 20 million e-mails a minute zipping around the globe and 40 million voicemails left each hour.<\/p>\n
And supervisory control and data acquisition networks, used throughout the chemical and utilities industries, were developed years before the Internet and never designed to include computer security.<\/p>\n
“Our operations, organizations, laws and policies have not kept pace with this changing technology,” Miller said.<\/p>\n
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