Protecting America In the 21st Century....
Ok, folks here's confirmation of what I suspected all along since skiing with that local agent of a state/federal/local agency earlier this year. He/she confirmed that BIG money is coming from DC and Microsoft to fund these efforts.
Look around you everyone. This is happening right underneath our noses.
Europe and the entire world slept earlier this century when similar things happened. By the time people finally woke up it was too late. Call me paranoid, but this stuff is very troubling.
fbi.gov
A Message from Michael Vatis
Director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center
I would like to welcome you to the web site of the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC). Located in the FBI's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., the NIPC brings together representatives from the FBI, other U.S. government agencies, state and local governments, and the private sector in a partnership to protect our nation's critical infrastructures.
Established in February 1998, the NIPC's mission is to serve as the U.S. government's focal point for threat assessment, warning, investigation, and response for threats or attacks against our critical infrastructures. These infrastructures, which include telecommunications, energy, banking and finance, water systems, government operations, and emergency services, are the foundation upon which our industrialized society is based.
Our society is increasingly relying on new information technologies and the Internet to conduct business, manage industrial activities, engage in personal communications, and perform scientific research. While these technologies allow for enormous gains in efficiency, productivity, and communications, they also create new vulnerabilities to those who would do us harm. The same interconnectivity that allows us to transmit information around the globe at the click of a mouse or push of a button also creates unprecedented opportunities for criminals, terrorists, and hostile foreign nation-states who might seek to steal money or proprietary data, invade private records, conduct industrial espionage, cause a vital infrastructure to cease operations, or engage in Information Warfare.
Protecting our critical infrastructures in the Information Age raises new challenges for all of us. Above all, it requires a partnership between the government and private industry to reduce our vulnerability to attack and increase our capabilities to respond to new threats. The NIPC provides an important vehicle for carrying that partnership forward.
"Because so many key components of our society are operated by the private sector, we must create a genuine public/private partnership to protect America in the 21st century. Together, we can find and reduce the vulnerabilities to attack in all critical sectors. "
President William J. Clinton |
