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Security industry executives said today the Bush administration is not giving enough attention to increasing cyber attacks that they say are threatening the nation's critical network infrastructure.
At a downtown press conference organized by the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), officials from RSA Security, Citadel Security Software and Juniper Networks called upon Bush to take a larger cyber security leadership role than he has in the past.
"If critical information infrastructure is underpinning our economy and our national security, it seems to me that this should have a much higher profile within the administration," said Art Coviello, RSA's president and CEO.
More than two years ago, Bush proposed a National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. The plan calls for a voluntary partnership between the public and private sectors to share security intelligence, reduce vulnerabilities and deter malicious entities.
Last year, the administration hosted a public-private cyber security summit between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and private sector security executives. DHS Assistant Secretary Bob Liscouski told the executives the private sector should lead the cyber security effort since more than 90 percent of the U.S. network infrastructure is in private hands.
In response, Coviello said the industry developed a "very good body of work for following up [on the president's plan]," but a subsequent summit never happened.
 News source: Internet News
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