The US government is about to get very serious on its spending for cyber security protection. The plan is to help control and better protect itself and its assets against future attacks.The spending is estimated to span 15-30 billion over the next five years. Currently Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, are all gearing up to bid on potential contracts that will arise from a report due to the White House in the coming weeks.
"Major defense firms are eager to get a slice of that pie. But some in the government are worried these firms don't have the necessary expertise and that the ramp-up in spending is a recipe for waste and inefficiency."
The contracts should be awarded soon and hopefully they will help to stimulate job growth in these sectors. The smallest security flaw can lead to a total disaster in the IT world and there are many holes to patch.
Step 2: change default admin passwords from "Admin"
Ill take 1 billion dollars now please
Most of them are on their own network already...
Well, I prefer to waste tax payer money in something beneficial for the country than waste billions in an useless war
could be. The grammatical term is called "oxymoron". Have fun.
Imagine thoose big military companys with 30 billion for cyber warfare...
They create new devasting cyber devices to shut down and hack things in the net...
A big mega company doing tools and devices isn't comparable to a 22 year old student who builds a new tool or hacks a small site.
I don't mean hacking tools for the public...
I meant tools and systems made for cyber warfare and that involves also breaking stuff, not only sitting there with a firewall and pray.
Imagine thoose big military companys with 30 billion for cyber warfare...
They create new devasting cyber devices to shut down and hack things in the net...
A big mega company doing tools and devices isn't comparable to a 22 year old student who builds a new tool or hacks a small site.
Think corruption. Why are those firms, whose unique competencies are manufacturing, gearing up for programming contracts? It's cuz they got contacts. Contacts for contracts, lol.
And it sucks.
I see this as good news for my job security. Not that I was too worried to begin with.
NOT good stuff. That money's probably going to go to waste.
Pentagon: The internet is an enemy "weapons system"
globalresearch.ca — The Pentagon's Information Operations Roadmap is blunt about the fact that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is in direct opposition to their goals. The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy "weapons system"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=7980
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con...va&aid=7980
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US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
Sounds great. -_-
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