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The number and sophistication of cyberattacks continues to increase, but no national policy is in place to confront them. Critical systems need to be built on secure foundations, rather than the cheapest general-purpose platform. A program that combines education in cyber security, increasing resources for law enforcement, development of reliable systems for critical applications, and expanding research support in multiple areas of security and reliability is essential to combat risks that are far beyond the nuisances of spam email and viruses, and involve widespread espionage, theft, and attacks on essential services.
This essay is derived from testimony presented by the author on March 19, 2009 to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Â Science, and Transportation. A copy of that testimony is <http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/usgov/commerce.pdf>.
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Spafford, E.H. (2009). Cyber Security: Assessing Our Vulnerabilities and Developing an Effective Defense. In: Gal, C.S., Kantor, P.B., Lesk, M.E. (eds) Protecting Persons While Protecting the People. ISIPS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5661. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10233-2_3
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