Secure Cyberspace

Book Id: WPLBN0000661572
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Secure Cyberspace
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Language:	English
Subject:	Technology., Reference materials, Technology and literature
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Secure Cyberspace. (n.d.). Secure Cyberspace. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
Technical Reference Publication

Excerpt
Introduction: Issued earlier this year, the National Strategy for Homeland Security addresses a very specific and uniquely challenging threat?terrorism in the United States?and provides a comprehensive framework for organizing the efforts of Federal, State, local and private organizations whose primary functions are often unrelated to national security. Cyberspace is essential to both homeland security and national security; its security and reliability support the economy, critical infrastructures, and national defense. Accordingly, the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace is an implementing strategy, which supports both the National Strategy for Homeland Security and the National Security Strategy of the United States. The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace describes initiatives to secure U.S. information systems against deliberate, malicious disruption and to foster an increased national resiliency. This Strategy, together with a complementary Homeland Security Physical Protection Strategy.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Cyberspace Threat and Vulnerabilities: A Case for Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 National Policy and Guiding Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Level 1: Home User and Small Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Level 2: Large Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Level 3: Critical Sectors Federal Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 State and Local Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Higher Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Private Sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Level 4: National Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Level 5: Global . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Summary of Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57