How to improve cyber-security in the US.....
1. Eliminate the contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman. They are the biggest problem and they are the ones sucking up huge amounts of money to not do their work and they refuse to adhere to the protocols and guidelines they helped create. Every single investigation over the past decade has concluded this and nothing has ever been done about it. Where I live, just outside of DC, we've had over 1 billion dollars in contractor fraud relating to the cyber infrastructure, specifically networking and security management over the last year alone.
2. Consolidate the infrastructure. There is too much spread out all over the place under the auspices of too many different agencies and groups. Stuff needs to be locked down and there is no reason at all that it can't be done all in one place. Hundreds of millions of dollars has been wasted on networked infrastructure and data centers for individual agencies, often at significant overpaid expense such as what DHS did to the tune of many wasted millions per year on an overpriced agreement with another agency that owned the space.
3. Remove the civilian Internet from the equation. You don't stick your weenie in a disease infested orifice and you don't keep your cash in a drawer by the front door of your home. The government can easily make their own private secure networks for specific uses, for very little money, yet they insist on continuing to use the Internet as the core of their whole infrastructure. We know for a fact that the very halls of power in DC are being used to run torrents, download child pornography, and a host of other illegal activities that compromise the security of government networks but nothing is ever done about it at the expense of taxpayers.
4. Invest in some REAL training for Americans and hire them. Iran, that most huggable of huggable nations, has a state of the art Cisco network engineering training program that makes what we have here look like a Special Education program for brain damaged toddlers. Many other ME and Asian countries have similar operations and send their trainees over here to get those jobs that require a security clearance with these SMB contractors that get the government jobs. They even sell fake Cisco hardware to the government through the acquisition process to go along with their workers.
5. Kill the aging hardware and software. XP is still widely in use as are older systems that have a high cost to maintain and those systems are not at all up to date with system patches or security fixes, making it easy to compromise things.
Source: http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/75985-fbi-official-cyber-war-were-not-winning.html
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