Government Falling Behind on Cybersecurity, Really??

We are going to file this one under the “gosh, we did not know that category.” But, Booz Allen Hamilton and Partnership for Public Service came out with a report yesterday say that — and here’s the big surprise — the government is falling behind in cybersecurity. The editorial staff at the ITAC blog believes that this report would have been more impactful if it came out six months ago. In that time, plenty has happened:

- It was announced that air traffic networks are vulnerable
- The Pentagon detected 360 million attempts to penetrate its networks in 2008
- The U.S. power grid was hacked into
- Computer spies broke into the Pentagon’s $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project – DoD’s costliest weapons program to date
- The FBI says that stopping cyber criminals is like playing a game of “whack a mole”
- Obama administration issued a 60-day cyber review; is planning on announcing a cyber czar position.

So after all this — and this is only the tip of the ice berg — Booz Allen issues a report saying that we need to strengthen cyber security? Certainly coming to the party a bit late…don’t you think?