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EU signs up new cyber-security boss
THE EUROPEAN UNION has appointed Dr Udo Helmbrecht as the executive director of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
Helmbrecht was born in Germany in 1955 and since 2003 has been president of the Federal Office for Information Security in Bonn.
"I am very pleased, privileged and humbled to have gained the Management Board's trust to become the Executive Director of ENISA. I proudly and readily assume this position, working for Europe," he said.
Helmbrecht wants to help the EU cyber-security outfit work more closely with other related European institutions and Member States to enhance electronic security throughout the region.
He also wants to ensure that ENISA lives beyond its current 2012 'sunset clause' by creating a permanent mandate for the organisation.
"The clear and permanent mandate is necessary to manage the increasing, fundamental role of security for economic and financial matters; for business and consumers alike," he said.
"Ultimately, the economy of Europe is at stake if we do not manage security matters properly and adequately. At the same time, we should promote the benefits of security to the citizens, so they gain trust in the advantages of information and communication technology to safely enjoy life in cyber space."
Helmbrecht did not go into any specific details around hot topics such as electronic border surveillance and monitoring or cyber-warfare, but he called for "more cooperation and dialogue with all security stakeholders."
He concluded by stressing that ENISA should be a trusted, independent body able to dispense "expert advice in security matters" and a key part of the European Parliament's security decision making process.
"The Agency's advice should have a lasting impact on the laws and regulation of the Commission and the Member States," he said. µ
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How many cyberattacks are conducted through botnets? Perhaps this new cyberboss could start by setting a minimum security rating for any software sold in Europe. Oh, I guess that would kind of leave Microsoft out of the running...might be a good idea after all.
How, pray tell, would the EU define this "minimum" security rating? A computer is only as secure as its owner's security practices, and most modern systems, set up correctly, are very secure. It's when they're not set up correctly that there is a problem, be it by ignorance, design, or even social engineering.
Artificial metrics such as how many hoops a user must go through to acquire root/administrator privileges are also not dependable. Some procedures may even *induce* insecurity (like Vista's UAC) as frustration overrides good practices. I knew someone who, to my astonishment, used the root user as his regular login in Linux, so he didn't need to keep jumping authenticating to install stuff.
The last thing we should ask for is an opportunity for ignorant politicians to legislate arbitrary standards.
"Helmbrecht did not go into any specific details around hot topics such as electronic border surveillance and monitoring or cyber-warfare, but he called for "more cooperation and dialogue with all security stakeholders."
He and his newly invented Phish Farm/Phormation Station/Money Pit are way behind in the Great Game Virtual Stakes CyberSpace Race and that means that they will always be Following Leaders rather than Leading Followers ..... in other words, they will be Puppets. And this is what the Future holds in ITs Storage Vaults.?! ...... and it may or may not be shared freely, after Moderator Viewing/Censorship Consideration in these Volatile and Vivacious and Dynamic Virtual Times and in the Times, as a reply to this Sad and Sorry Spinning Tale .....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6881808.ece
"They highlight fears within military circles that the party is exploiting their public standing. ..... “We call on all those who seek to hijack the good name of Britain’s military for their own advantage to cease and desist,” they write."
Err ...... every party milks to death, exploitation of their public standing with cynical and self-serving expressions of heart felt gratitude and deep condolence to those who further the maintenance of a Remotely Corrupted Status Quo hierarchy .......which may be a decidedly Unholy Alliance between Mass Money Machinery, Pontificating Pompous Politics and Manic Misunderestimating Media religiously conspiring as Cheap Common Criminals to Scupper any Change which Renders the Future under Alternative Control with Better Beta Controllers of Intellectual Property Power and Novel Innovative Intelligence ...... Viable Creative Imaginanation, with their constant Pimping of Tales lauding Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
With any Created and Freely Shared Transparent Global Master Plan, is everything known to everyone, thus Allowing for Massive Public Support and Colossal Private Reinforcement of a Virtualised Operating System on AIRock Solid Base Foundation ...... MODifying and Post Modernising Future Facilities and Networking InfraStructures for Instant Placement, Replacement Reality Theatres of Operation ....... with ProgramMING NIRobotIQs Streaming NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive IT Projects/Projections/Sees.
A Task which is as easy as falling off the proverbial Log with a Creative CyberSpace Command into Concerted and Collective Control of Computers and Communications and CyberIntelAIgent Security Operations, which is a little Something Seductively Succulent and Brand Spanking New on the GCHQ Menu, is it not? And if not, one can certainly ask why not, whenever it is so readily available from IT Space Programmers.
You want Change? Ok, there is Change ..... but is Man too Retarded and Ignorant to See that the Future is Never Ever like the Present ......
... and whenever the Present is just a Fleeting Moment in Time and Space on which to Stage and Build the Future with Virgin Ideas, and which then, by Virtue of the following Instant, Immediately becomes the Past and Used Memory for Abusing Operating Systems Performing with Conflicting Information/Dodgy MetaDataBase, would not Something/Anything Different from Anywhere/Anything/Anyone Different not be Worthwhile?
And how would IT be stopped, if one were qualified and certifiably mad and bad enough to try?
Wake Up, Smell the Java .... Change has already happened, Covertly and Quite Stupendously Sublimely. Just ask your Intelligence Chiefs.