From Nextgov:The Obama administration is developing a plan that would establish the responsibilities and roles that governments and businesses would carry out in response to a widespread cyberattack, a strategy that would be similar to how the public and private sectors' collaboration after a natural disaster such as a hurricane, a White House official said on Tuesday.
"What is our plan for a digital disaster? How do we work with [partners] like we do when there's a hurricane or another national disaster?" asked Melissa Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace at the National Security Council. "We're coming up with chapters of what we think will be a responsible [incident response] plan."
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My Comment: The government's main focus is on how to restore the net in the event of a cataclysm and/or attack on our web infrastructure. What is missing is that in the event of an non-natural event, there is no policy on what to do to the organization and/or nation responsible for such an attack.
Deterrence has always proved to be an effective way to make any aggressor second guess on what they should do .... but it appears that when it comes to cyber security issues, this policy is completely lacking.
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