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[ NNSquad ] Homeland Security weighs expanding Einstein monitoring to private sector
----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:42:47 -0500 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] Homeland Security weighs expanding Einstein monitoring to private sector Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: > From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> > Date: March 4, 2010 11:25:26 AM EST > To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> > Subject: Homeland Security weighs expanding Einstein monitoring to > private sector > > Dave, > > Your readers may be interested in our CNET report today about a > possible expansion of Homeland Security's Einstein network-monitoring > system to the private sector: > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10463665-38.html > > The original purpose of Einstein was to detect attacks on .gov > networks. We don't know much about the latest version, Einstein 3, but > Homeland Security has said that it will try to prevent attacks as > they're happening. The White House confirmed this week that Einstein 3 > involves DHS exchanging information with the National Security Agency: > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10462563-38.html > > Here are some questions that CDT raised about Einstein, including > Einstein 3, last year that as far as I know are still unanswered: > http://www.cdt.org/security/20090728_einstein_rpt.pdf > > -Declan > > ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----