A new study says the US must develop cyber intelligence as a new and better coordinated government discipline that can predict computer-related threats and deter them.
The report by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) says the dramatic expansion of sophisticated cyber attacks has moved beyond acceptable losses for government and businesses that simply threaten finances or intellectual property.
“The impact has increased in magnitude and the potential for catastrophic collapse of a company has grown,” said the report, which is slated to be released later this month.
It adds that it is not clear that the business community understands or accepts that.
The report comes amid growing worries that the US is not prepared for a major cyber attack, even as hackers, criminals and nation states continue to probe and infiltrate government and critical business networks millions of times a day.
INSA, a non-partisan national security organization, says the US must develop strategies beyond the current “patch and pray” procedures, create cyber intelligence policies, coordinate and share intelligence better among government agencies and businesses and increase research on attack attribution and warnings.
And it says the US must develop effective cyber intelligence so officials can assess and mitigate the risks.
Many of the report’s observations echo sentiments expressed by Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security officials who have been struggling to improve information sharing between the government and key businesses. However, efforts to craft needed cybersecurity legislation have stalled in Congress.
INSA’s report also lays out the growing threats from other nations — including those who are friendly, corrupt or just unable to control hackers within their borders.
While it does not name the countries, it says that failed states provide opportunities for hackers, as they do for criminals and terrorists, while other nations tolerate the criminals as long as concentrate their activities beyond their borders.
US officials have long pointed to Russia and China, as well as a number of eastern European nations, as some of the leading safe havens for cyber-criminals or government-sponsored or tolerated hacking.
At the same time, the report says the US has also outsourced much of the design and maintenance of computer technology to other countries where potential adversaries can easily insert themselves into the supply chain.
“The present situation is as dangerous as if the United States decided to outsource the design of bridges, electrical grids and other physical infrastructure to the Soviet Union during the Cold War,” said INSA, which is headed by Frances Townsend, who was homeland security adviser in the administration of former US president George W. Bush.
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