Internet scramble for Defense of the United States.

Who will be the future of the cyber defense of the United States determine the secret, or the DHS? NSA boss Keith Alexander Calls on Congress to provide it with the leadership to leave. A decision is urgently needed, networks of the Pentagon seems to be attacked every day.

 

Washington - The U.S. is the Pentagon's view, not enough to attacks from the Internet prepared. The training of the staff of the
Defense Ministry in this regard should be improved, it is said in a prepared speech text by Lieutenant General Keith Alexander for a hearing on Tuesday in Congress to take place.

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NSA boss Keith Alexander: If the future of the U.S. cyber-defense command

Alexander is director of domestic intelligence authority NSA (National Security Agency - and competent commander in the Pentagon for Internet warfare. The hearing was shortly before publication of a report by the government of President Barack Obama for Internet security in the U.S. scheduled.

Since weeks, in the U.S. gerangelt matter who is the future of the pots of money the government should refresh, who would have sovereignty over the Internet defense of the country should take on.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the secret NSA wrestle here to money and power.

Criticism expressed by the National Research Council (National Research Council), in the spirit of Alexander noted that the plans of the Government, when and how the Internet should go to war, were still immature. It also lacked a supervisory body, also had a larger public debate is needed.

Only a few weeks ago where it had reports that
Data for the new F-35 fighter jets via data had been stolen. The Pentagon denied at that time, this was a dangerous vulnerability traded, said
there are only documents of the maintenance stealth aircraft have been captured.

Alexander said the new command center for military activities on the Internet at Fort Meade in the state of Maryland will be set up so that it is central networks could defend on the Internet. The Homeland Security Department will under which the necessary know-how to cyber defense simply buy
examined by ad agency for certified professional hackers, the security-related networks in the country to scan for vulnerabilities.

And that seems necessary, because the networks of the Ministry of Defense seems to be attacked every day. In so doing, according Pentagon figures, the number of attempts to intrude into the computer, recently doubled. In the past six months, the Defense Ministry 100 million U.S. dollars in order to respond to attacks, damage, remove or other computer problems.