FBI to Private Sector: Cybersecurity Joint Effort

If anyone came to the RSA Conference this week expecting to hear technology was winning the war against cyber threats, they'd be sorely disappointed. Just as Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano did the previous day, FBI director Robert Mueller told an audience here at the conference that the U.S. risks falling dangerously behind in the fight against cyber criminals. ... Noting the breadth of attacks by numerous criminal organizations here and abroad, Mueller said our computer systems are suffering "death by a thousand cuts, bleeding data, bit by bit and terabyte by terabyte," as he put it. ..."We're playing cat and mouse and the mouse seems to be ahead most of the time," the FBI director continued. "We have to make the cost of business too expensive for them."

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Source: eSecurityPlanet.com