Cybercrime and cyberterrorism are keeping information security professionals up at night. Many in the Information Security field have been pointing out the necessity for cyber security upgrades to countries' domestic computer apparatuses for some time (see here and here.)
The JPost and IsraelHayom reported that at the annual International Conference on Homeland Security in Tel Aviv, Israel Police Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino announced that Israel is creating a unit of 60 computer security experts to defend the country from cybercrime whether committed by members of organized crime syndicates, pedophiles, or foreign elements. (See also my earlier post regarding the US stance on cyberattacks.)
One of the biggest questions regarding such an endeavor is whether the government sector can offer salaries that are competitive with the private sector. This is a problem that the National Security Agency in the US has been facing for many years (see here, here, and here.) For a review of other problems involved in recruiting computer security experts for US government agencies see the US Government Accountability Office report. Whether Israeli computer experts' sense of patriotic duty trumps financial remuneration remains to be seen, although Israel has long had a military "computer corps" and those individuals might be willing to spend some time in this new agency before moving to the private sector.
No comments:
Post a Comment