Digital Pearl Harbor: How Real Is the Cybersecurity Threat, and Who's Responsible Anyway?
POLICY FORUMTuesday, September 24, 2002
11:00 a.m.
Featuring Howard Schmidt, Federal Office of Cybersecurity; Ken Silva, Verisign Corporation; Ira H. Parker, Genuity; Warren Axelrod, Pershing Division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation; and Scott Charney, Microsoft.
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The Internet was designed to be an open system rather than a secure one. As the Net becomes increasingly commercialized, are warnings of a "Digital Pearl Harbor" valid, or are they overblown? In the wake of terrorist attacks, is government assuming too much responsibility for what is really the private sector's role, for example through the mechanisms of insurance and security monitoring companies? Microsoft has itself called security, rather than product development, its new primary focus. Join us for a lively discussion of security in the digital age.