Cyber security: recovery and reconstitution of critical networks: hearing before the Federal Financial Management, Government Information

Original publisher: Washington: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2007. LC Number: KF26 .H633 2006n OCLC Number: (OCoLC)143644715 Subject: Emergency management -- United States -- Planning. Excerpt: ... 11 and networks. A recent intelligence report on global trends fore-casts that terrorists may develop capabilities to conduct both cyber and physical attacks against infrastructure nodes, including the Internet. In fact, the Internet itself has been targeted and attacked and private companies who own the majority of the Internet infra-structure deal with cyber and physical disruptions on a regular basis. For example, viruses and worms are often used to launch ' ' denial of service ' ' attacks that result in traffic being slowed or stopped. Several recent cyber attacks highlight the importance of having ro-bust Internet recovery plans, including a 2002 coordinated denial of service attack that targeted all 13 Internet route servers. For most of these attacks, the government did not have a role in recovering the Internet, but recent physical attacks like the ter-rorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina, high-light the need for public-private coordination associated with Inter-net recovery. DHS has begun a variety of initiatives to fulfill its re-sponsibility for developing an integrated public-private plan, but these efforts are not yet complete nor are they comprehensive. Specifically, DHS has developed high-level plans for infrastruc-ture protection and national disaster response, but components of these plans that are to address Internet recovery are incomplete and inadequate. For example, the National Response Plan Cyber Annex does not reflect the National Cyber Response Coordination Group's current operating procedures. DHS has started a variety of initiatives to tackle this problem, including working groups to fa-cilitate response and exercises to practice recovery efforts. How-ever, these efforts are immature and ...