While on the Old Continent we try as best they can position themselves in the fight against cyber-threats, the United States and more particularly the "DoD (Department of Defense / Department of Defense), communicate to another level but also advancing rapidly. I will return in a future post.
A first bracket: you can even think that the evolution of the "Holy Trinity" (doctrine / resources / capabilities) ahead of the communication also great communicators because they are, the technological advance and / or capability and confidentiality remain as one of their strengths.
A second bracket for accuracy, linked to one of my previous posts abruptly (but in fact, I maintain my position!) Entitled " Noddy and cyber threats . I laughed politely of the European Agency for Safety Network and Information ( ENISA) and his French counterpart, the ANSSI . These two entities, missions rather different but complementary suffer from major handicaps: for ENISA is to be a European integrated agency with what it leads in terms of strategy (s) and decision (s). Since its inception, the initial goal was quickly confronted with the reality: the legitimacy of national agencies and CERT , modest budgets, goals quickly revised downwards. Like other agencies in their time, it will in future find its place among the national systems, on pain of being a new "gadget .
For ANSSI is more complicated late DCSSI has a legitimacy on the national stage and beyond, recognized expertise, but the major drawback of not having a size critical. Budgets are certainly increasing and the number of open positions has increased significantly recent years but that does not spearhead that France, " fifth largest economy", is entitled wait. Especially in Europe, is an actor but also a target for threats ranging from terrorism to economic and industrial intelligence. And that networks and information systems are at the heart of these issues.
Has provided the die is cast? We can fear it, unfortunately. Especially when we know that NATO at its last summit , placed cybersecurity as one of the important areas that the Alliance will have to address.
So on one hand, we can let go and say that keeping a small agency at the national level, integrated in a system with NATO staff resources and greater resources, is common sense. Especially at a time when economies across announced.
On the other hand, some makers (and their advisers) have adequately measured the interest that France (and some of its European neighbors) Will (are) to engage in the process of the fight against cyber threats ? Behind what may seem abstruse, highly virtual, high-tech jobs and new tools (concepts, methodologies, technologies) are to integrate and create. And know-how could be partly exported (ie sold) thereafter.
To believe the adage that "security is a cost, not an investment "remain inscribed in stone a long time!