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Project: Find The Next
Major Need
for National Security
Project: Determine the major
new threats to national security that will emerge,
prove to the public and private sectors
the clear and present dangers, and
develop a new realm of
research and development
The Internet was fast
becoming such an integrated part of
not just consumers' lives, but
industry as well. From air traffic
control, food and pharmaceutical
processing, water treatment, to the
power grid and hospitals, almost every
element of our critical
infrastructure was
connecting to the Internet. Often,
allowing powerful and feature-rich remote access and control.
With commerce,
and more importantly human safety on the line as the Internet developed,
this was clearly the most critical
project for which we had ever been
engaged.
Up to that point, conventional hackers were
thought to be the entirety of the
threat to IT. However we determined that
was not that case: there was a much
greater threat looming against IT
and control systems of both the public and private
sectors.
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