Chong comments on America's National Cyber Security Division, and what role Canada should play

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October 8th, 2004

We asked Michael with regards to the BBC News report that a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal memo described cyber terrorism as one of America's top five security threats. A new unit within the Department of Homeland Security, the National Cyber Security Division, was created explicitly for the purpose of tackling net security in an attempt to address the criticisms that the U.S. government has NOT done a good enough job in preventing future cyber terrorist attacks. Although no such attack has ever been logged, and some say it’s American political fear mongering, as someone trained in the IT industry we felt it was important to ask Mr. Chong if he felt North Americans are under any real threat, and if so, what role do you feel the government should play in protecting those networks?

He responded, typically IT technology tends to be satellite networks which can serve independently with either options or the capability to form or join wide area networks.  When one goes down, it doesn’t always adversely affect the others. North America’s IT technology already survived a terrorist attack when terrorist targeted the twin towers in New York, yet our IT infrastructures were, for the most part, unaffected. The real threat to our IT networks are, individual terrorist, often termed as hackers. The only role government needs to play is - developing laws aimed at protecting those networks, then following through by prosecuting those who break the law.

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