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01/29/2016

US Homeland Security’s $6B Firewall Has More Than a Few Frightening Blind Spots

A firewall run by the Department of Homeland Security meant to detect and prevent nation-state hacks against the government functions ineffectively, according to a sanitized version of a secret federal audit.

EINSTEIN relies on patterns of attacks, called signatures, to spot suspicious traffic, but it does not scan for 94 percent of commonly known vulnerabilities or check web traffic for malicious content.

A view of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Va.

 

Full article: http://www.nextgov.com/

 

Posted at 11:24 AM in Cyber Security, CyberSecurity, Federal, State, Local Government, Homeland Security, Information security, Infrastructure protection, Resiliency, DR, BCP, and COOP |

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