While FBI Director?s Robert Mueller?s assertion that the private sector is ?maintaining a code of silence by not reporting cyber attacks? may be true, it must not be assumed automatically that the blame for this lack of reporting lies with the private sector. The government also shares some responsibility in curing this problem.

For example, the government, particularly the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has done a poor job of demonstrating a commitment to cyber security. Cyber security only recently received a high-level champion inside DHS when Secretary Micheal Chertoff announced a department-wide reorganization in mid-July 2005. Prior to this creation of the Assistant Secretary for Cyber and Telecommunications security, the job of cyber security was housed several rungs down the DHS food chain within the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) (press release). It is believed that this lack of attention to former NCSD director Amit Yoran to resign his post at DHS. According to Roger Cressey, former chief of staff to the Bush administration?s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, “There has not been enough of an investment at senior administration levels to make this an issue.”