Security experts recently recommended US lawmakers to get going on reinforcing the potentials of nation’s cybersecurity in order to steer clear of crippling attacks. Executives as of security firms like Cyber Defense Agency and Geer Risk Services, plus from the Center for Strategic and International Studies gave proof in front of the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on rising threats, cybersecurity as well as science and technology.
Sami Saydjari, president of Professionals for Cyber Defense and CEO of Cyber Defense Agency, purported that the US was not ready to protect itself suitably and recover from a tactical cyberattack. Daniel Geer Jr., principal owner of Geer Risk Services, was reported to have said that the nation has been lucky enough that it has not been encountered with any highly potential attack so far. The dangers are evidently present, mainly in the security vulnerabilities that are ostensibly existed in more or less all software products in the market.
Geer added further that the government should set up enhanced security metrics, in order to accord with the staffing and training of cybersecurity specialists. Reminding US, he said the country previously had a few narrow escapes. For example, the Nimda worm, that appeared a week after the 9/11 attacks, to put off the 911 emergency dialing system in the US, which might have resulted in increased public terror,
