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US web security 'needs new devices'
04 Mar 2010
Government and businesses in the United States need to drastically boost
internet security through developing new devices, the homeland security
secretary has said in a speech.
The devices to verify computer users and automate responses to cyber
attacks are needed for a more reliable level of performance, Janet
Napolitano told a conference.
Her speech follows concerns expressed about computer vulnerabilities in
the US by director of national intelligence Dennis Blair and former Bush
administration officials. Blair's predecessor Michael McConnell told a
Senate panel the US would lose a 'cyber war'.
The Department of Homeland Security and several companies are
co-operating on a national plan to deal with a computer network
emergency, stressed Napolitano.
The plan will allow a national response to a major cyber incident in
which all aspects of society would have an important role to play, an
excerpt from the speech said.
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