The U.S. government is not taking cybersecurity seriously enough and should spend more money and energy on the topic, a group of computer security firms said Tuesday. At an event in Washington, D.C., members of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance warned of the potential dangers of Internet attacks and called on the next Bush administration to create a new assistant secretary position inside the Department of Homeland Security and to ratify a computer crime treaty. “It seems to me that this should have a much higher profile within the administration,” said Art Coviello, CEO of RSA Security. “In addition to infrastructure protection, (we need) an assistant secretary for cybersecurity.” Full Story
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