Today Canada's Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said, Cyber Security is like the new arms race. He said there is not one minute of the day that someone somewhere is trying to break-in to our information systems.
Everyone knows information security and information services in this global economy
of interconnected services, that what he said is correct - that every minute of every day, someone or something launched by someone is analyzing what it can do to break-through a trust zone. Chances are your business supply chain is online 24/7 and if your really analyzing your data and doing your research you know these attacks do not stop. In a matter of minutes what you once thought was at least up to date, could now be openly attacked by new discovered flaws and it becomes a race of what is the grace period before applying new security updates and the testing of implementing the new updates and when there will be a massive outbreak. And then, there are the flaws have not been made public that you need to convince the LOB managers that these outstanding exposures should be mitigated before the next security update.
Peter Van Loan's comments go along to point out that executive governance on information security practices and procedures are not just coming in the government sector but in the private and public sectors as well.
In the U.S. we have seen mandates from states on the protection of privacy information and new bills introduced for the forth coming legislation on Information Security. PCI Security Standards for the way that your information security architecture needs to be structured for Payment Card applications and the new Red Flag Law for Identity Theft.
At the same time the U.S and Canada met to discuss a new partnership to protect against trans-border theats: UPI.com . They discussed:
-- Developing joint threat and risk assessments.
-- Advancing initiatives that manage risk while facilitating movement of legitimate goods and people.
-- Working to ensure that separate systems prevent entry of dangerous goods or people to either country when national laws bar sharing managed risk initiatives.
-- Expanding integrated law enforcement operations along the border and waterways to prevent criminals and terrorists terrorists from evading enforcement or harming the two countries.
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