By National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Committee on the Role of Information Technology in Responding to Terrorism, Herbert S. Lin, Visit Amazon's David A. Patterson Page, se
Information know-how (IT) is key to nearly the entire nation’s serious infrastructures making them weak by means of a terrorist assault on their IT procedure. An assault should be at the approach itself or use the IT approach to release or exacerbate one other kind of assault. it could actually even be used as a counterterrorism software. The document concludes that the main devastating results of a terrorist assault could ensue if it have been on or used IT as a part of a broader assault. The document provides tips on what should be performed within the brief time period to guard the nation’s communications and data platforms and several other suggestions approximately what might be performed over the long run. The document additionally notes the significance of contemplating how an IT method could be deployed to maximise safeguard opposed to and usability in responding to attacks.
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However, it is not known today how to integrate components safely, how to contain faults in them, and how to disaggregate them when necessary. While this lack of understanding applies to systems ranging from accounting and payroll systems to telephone switching systems, SCADA systems are a particularly important case. 9 Such an approach could be one of the most effective long-term methods for hardening IT targets that oversee critical operations. For the most part, current approaches to system design involve either the independence of system components (which in modern large-scale systems leads to inefficiencies of operation) or the integration of system components (with the inherent vulnerabilities that this approach entails).
This possibility suggests a need for detecting and identifying intruders. How- 4The case of a terrorist as an insider who has already been granted access is not within the scope of this particular problem. Insider attacks are addressed in other parts of this report. 5An ongoing CSTB project examines in detail the technologies underlying authentication. org> for more information on this subject. 36 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR COUNTERTERRORISM ever, intruders are often indistinguishable from valid users and frequently take great care to hide their entry and make their behavior look innocuous.
Technology cannot be studied in isolation of the ways in which it is deployed, and failure to attend to the human, political, social, and organizational aspects of solutions will doom technology to failure. 6 addresses social and organizational dimensions that must be incorporated into study in these areas. 1 presents the committee’s rough assessment of the criticality of the various research areas identified, the difficulty of the research problems, and the likely time scale on which progress could be made.