The Report on "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency"

A report "Securing Cyberspace for the 44^th Presidency” has just been released.

Synopsis:
The CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency has released its final report, "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency." The Commission’s three major findings are:

1. Cybersecurity is now one of the major national security problems facing the United States;
2. Decisions and actions must respect American values related to privacy and civil liberties; and
3. Only a comprehensive national security strategy that embraces both the domestic and international aspects of cybersecurity will improve the situation.

Source: Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency, Retrieved on 12/17/2008 from sis.org/media/csis/pubs/081208_securingcyberspace_44.pdf

"The discussion of using Federal market powers to "remedy the lack of demand for secure protocols" is too terse, perhaps by intent. As I read that section (p. 58), it is calling for BGP and DNS security. These are indeed important, and were called out by name in the 2002 National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. However, I fear that simply saying that the Federal government should only buy Internet services from ISPs that support these will do too little. DNSSEC to protect .gov and .mil does not require ISP involvement; in fact, the process is already underway within the government itself."

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Steven Bellovin, The Report on "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency", Retreived from circleid.com/posts/20081215_securing_cyberspace_44th_presidency on Dec 15, 2008