Law 897: Assignment for November 13, 2008

Cyberterrorism

• Read the Congressional Research Service January 29, 2008 Report: Botnets, Cybercrime, and Cyberterrorism: Vulnerabilities and Policy Issues for Congress


• Browse the Centre for CounterIntelligence & Seurity Studies Cyber Security News page. Click on two or three links.


• Read David Powner's September 16, 2008, testimony for the GAO on CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION: DHS Needs to Better Address Its Cybersecurity Responsibilities
  
  Optional: Read the two GAO Reports Powner describes in his testimony
  • GAO Report 08-588 -- Cyber Analysis and Warning: DHS Faces Challenges in Establishing a Comprehensive National Capability (July 31, 2008)
  • GAO Report 08-825 -- Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Needs To Fully Address Lessons Learned from Its First Cyber Storm Exercise (Sept. 9, 2008)
  
  
• Last year, the National Academies of Science published a study: Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace. Read the Executive Summary.


• Optional (but interesting): Dorothy E. Denning is a professor at the Department of Defense Analysis of the Naval Post Graduate School, and a well-known scholar in the areas of information warfare and cyber security. Read her 2007 book chapter, The Ethics of Cyber-Conflict, published in Himma & Tavani, The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics