U.S. Department of Defense Not Ready for Cyberwar (March 12, 2013)

From The SANS Institute:

U.S. Department of Defense Not Ready for Cyberwar (March 12, 2013) This editorial in today's Washington Post, describes and discusses the findings of the Defense Science Board (DSB), probably the most prestigious collection of technical, policy, and industrial leadership the U.S. has ever asked to focus on cybersecurity and cyber warfare. The DSB report "hints that U.S. nuclear weapons, hardened to survive an atomic blast in the Cold War, may not be ready to survive a cyber-onslaught...[and] called for "immediate action" to make sure the nuclear weapons would survive." The report also projected that when open conflict breaks out, potentially, "hundreds" of simultaneous, synchronized offensive and defensive cyber operations would be needed, and yet the task force found the U.S. military is not ready. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-is-not-ready-for-a-cyberwar/2013/03/11/782e299a-8838-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html?hpid=z3