Retired Major General Dale Meyerrose (USAF), vice president and general manager for Cyberspace Solutions at Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) feels the issue of cyber threats must be brought into the light.
“During the past decade, cyberspace access and use have become ubiquitous assets in our society, but the way that we discuss cyber hasn’t changed, ” said Gen. Meyerrose. “The general user has become more knowledgeable about cyberspace, but is still not fully aware of its dangers. Every individual who touches cyberspace is a user, consumer, threat, vulnerability, defender and attacker at the same time – irrespective of intent or capability.”
According to Harris, Gen. Meyerrose made the comments during a keynote address at the recent Global Cybersecurity Policy conference at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Washington, DC. One goal of the conference is to promote a public dialogue about cyberspace in support of the 2009 White House Cyberspace Policy Review committee’s recommendation for a national public awareness and education campaign to promote cybersecurity.
“First, information-on-demand capabilities created new expectations about the availability of information, ” he explained. “Browsers and data search engines, while not new, soared in importance. Second, the social networking phenomenon meant that workers often had more capable and agile information technology at home than they had in the office. In turn, they have become dissatisfied with the limitations of workplace networks, and often risk bypassing or ignoring security tools such as virus protectors and spam filters to get the information they seek. As technologists, we must change the cyber dialogue to make consumers aware that cyber has no territorial boundaries. There is no inside and outside of the office building or complex. Cyber and network security are intertwined with basic information sharing and computing.”
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