The Cause Of Cyber Attack In The United States

Cyber Wars
After viewing his report, I am shocked to hear about the risk our country is in. This report stated various ways in which foreign countries and even our own U.S. Citizens can hack into our databases and steal our countries most vital information. I believe that the thought of our worlds information systems to be attacked is highly possible. They were discussing how people are hacking into banks and stealing thousands to millions of dollars everyday, into our oil and electricity plants, and into our national security. These three things are huge to our country. This country runs on electricity, a blackout will put the country in a more vulnerable position. During these blackouts other countries can be accessing our information
They quote a former head of the National Security Agency J. M. McConnell about the seriousness of this issue. He states, “The critical infrastructure of the United States, including electrical power, finance, telecommunications, health care, transportation, water, defense and the Internet, is highly vulnerable to cyber attack. Fast and resolute mitigating action is needed to avoid national disaster.” These are also all the things discussed in the video. And as discussed in this article, in the video, and as a personal opinion there needs to be plan! We cannot allow for another attack like the one on September 11, 2001 to occur again. This Frontline article also goes on expressing how, “it is not sufficient to just respond to attacks, but rather proactive measures must also be implemented to reduce and prevent future attacks.” Cyber terrorism is possible and is occurring right now and I believe that the government might be focusing on the wrong idea of looking for the after affects of an attack. Our country needs to become more efficient as far as developing a plan or changing their ways of operating or data keeping in order to solve the problem now not later. Also, I believe that we are putting vital information in the hands of others. More than ninety percent of our computer programmers, telephone operators, computer operators, and data entry keyers are being offshored. These people are operating / managing our computers and personal information such as our credit cards and who knows what they can be doing to our information or even worse who is looking over them to look at us. I think that this is a huge problem and that offshoring should of never been allowed because we are putting our country in even bigger danger, but like the video stated towards the electricity plant, private companies are only interested in profit. This is where the government needs to take action and