Those in the cyber security industry generally reserve special respect for one government agency: the National Security Agency. And, Ted Bridis at Associated Press is reporting that a NSA director will be announcing Wednesday that:
"The Bush administration is considering making the National Security Agency ... its 'traffic cop'' for ambitious plans to share homeland security information across government computer networks.... Such a decision would expand NSA's responsibility to help defend the complex network of data pipelines carrying warnings and other sensitive information."
The AP piece quotes Paul Kurtz, a former White House cybersecurity adviser and head of the Washington-based Cyber Security Industry Alliance:
"Bring it on. This clearly ought to be done. This will raise the bar across the federal government to a far more secure infrastructure.''
The NSA announcement will be made at the RSA conference in San Francisco. In show of how important cyber security has become to the industry, at large, keynotes will come several tech titans including Microsoft's Bill Gates and Cisco's John Chambers.
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