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8 Modern Weapons: Possibilities and Limitations
The EINSTEIN-3 program was supposed to use specialized control technologies to
perform real-time inspection of important objects and make decisions based on the
analysis of the spectrum of all incoming threats via network (input or output) traffic
of a standard network of the executive power branch.
The program also suggested the possibility of automatically detecting and properly
responding to any cyberthreats before the damage is done. Furthermore
– Coordination and, if necessary, re-orientation of studies and developments in the
field of computer security;
– Raising operational situational awareness of existing computer security centers
(promptly communicating information on the attacks and their features);
– Development and implementation of a cyber counterintelligence plan at the
government level (a top-secret plan);
– Increase in the level of security of computer networks used only to work with
secret data;
– Deployment of short-term computer security programs in technical universities
of the USA and NATO countries;
– Development of the plan of measures for implementation of the concept of “leap
forward” of the USA in the field of strategies, technologies, and computer security
programs.
One of the goals of the last version of the strategy in the field of cybersecurity
known from a media leak is the development of special technologies that can provide
cybersecurity with systems exceeding the effectiveness of the ones existing at the
moment of publication of this strategy, which can be deployed within 5–10 years.
The formulation of such and similar main challenges for research institutes and
organizations within the structure of the US Department of Defense and its agencies, such as the CIA and the NSA, requires the latter to develop truly non-standard
solutions to neutralize these challenges. The strategy further provides
– Development of reliable strategies and containment programs in the field of
computer security;
– Development of a complex approach to global (on the scale of the world market)
management of risks of equipment and software supplies, including supplies of
such critical components of the US national security as channels (chains) of
supplies of trusted microcircuits;
– Determination of the new defining role of the US federal government in increasing
the level of computer security in critical fields of the infrastructure.
Although this is not evident from the name of this section of our encyclopedia, we
must say a few words about the Chinese policy in this sphere as well as about what
is being done in Russia.
In the normative practice and even the vocabulary of government officials in both
China and Russia, the foreign term cyberspace still hasn’t gained popularity; therefore, the conceptual framework of these government officials is generally similar to
that used in our book: information sphere, information threats, information security.
8 Modern Weapons: Possibilities and Limitations
The EINSTEIN-3 program was supposed to use specialized control technologies to
perform real-time inspection of important objects and make decisions based on the
analysis of the spectrum of all incoming threats via network (input or output) traffic
of a standard network of the executive power branch.
The program also suggested the possibility of automatically detecting and properly
responding to any cyberthreats before the damage is done. Furthermore
– Coordination and, if necessary, re-orientation of studies and developments in the
field of computer security;
– Raising operational situational awareness of existing computer security centers
(promptly communicating information on the attacks and their features);
– Development and implementation of a cyber counterintelligence plan at the
government level (a top-secret plan);
– Increase in the level of security of computer networks used only to work with
secret data;
– Deployment of short-term computer security programs in technical universities
of the USA and NATO countries;
– Development of the plan of measures for implementation of the concept of “leap
forward” of the USA in the field of strategies, technologies, and computer security
programs.
One of the goals of the last version of the strategy in the field of cybersecurity
known from a media leak is the development of special technologies that can provide
cybersecurity with systems exceeding the effectiveness of the ones existing at the
moment of publication of this strategy, which can be deployed within 5–10 years.
The formulation of such and similar main challenges for research institutes and
organizations within the structure of the US Department of Defense and its agencies, such as the CIA and the NSA, requires the latter to develop truly non-standard
solutions to neutralize these challenges. The strategy further provides
– Development of reliable strategies and containment programs in the field of
computer security;
– Development of a complex approach to global (on the scale of the world market)
management of risks of equipment and software supplies, including supplies of
such critical components of the US national security as channels (chains) of
supplies of trusted microcircuits;
– Determination of the new defining role of the US federal government in increasing
the level of computer security in critical fields of the infrastructure.
Although this is not evident from the name of this section of our encyclopedia, we
must say a few words about the Chinese policy in this sphere as well as about what
is being done in Russia.
In the normative practice and even the vocabulary of government officials in both
China and Russia, the foreign term cyberspace still hasn’t gained popularity; therefore, the conceptual framework of these government officials is generally similar to
that used in our book: information sphere, information threats, information security.