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IAM/Secure Data Systems, Inc.: FBI Statement of 'Electronic Pearl Harbor' Scenario, a Little Too Late in Issuance!
Federal Government calls for the protection of vital infrastructure and
systems has been warned by Information Security experts for years.
GLADWYNE, Pa., March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by IAM/Secure Data Systems, Inc.:
In a statement issued by Michael Vatis, deputy assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and chief of the bureau's new National Infrastructure Protection Center, speaking before Congress' Joint Economic Committee stated, "A stealth attack on the Internet-based systems controlling a major electric power grid knocks out power to hundreds of thousands of homes. A hit on a system controlling emergency services cuts off '911' telephone access for entire communities, putting lives at risk," today was rebuffed by Ian A. Murphy, Pres. & CEI0 of TAM Secure Data Systems, Inc., as being far too little, and far too late in the total scheme of things. "The potential of such an attack, has been with us for years. The fact that the telephone, electrical, water, medical, banking, transportation and aviation systems, have been vulnerable for a number of years and these vulnerabilities have never been federally addressed, until now. |
