How Far Should We Go to Prevent Cyber Intrusion?

  The Obama administration is weighing plans to use its executive power to press U.S. businesses to better protect critical industries from potentially crippling computer attacks, after Congress failed to pass such legislation last week.

Now there are good and bad points to all of this. Executive power does not need to be used as a club to threaten US businesses to force them to comply to government wishes. I can see how this can lead to a draconian type situation.

On the other hand the Chinese have had great success in conducting cyber warfare on our businesses and stealing military secrets. Something drastic has to be done in order to stop them. It is imperative that we do more because the damage that has already been done is so deep that we will never be able to determine its depths.

President Barack Obama may use his authority to issue orders compelling or encouraging private industry to meet minimum security standards to protect their computer networks from attacks by hackers or foreign governments according to White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan.
His comments reflect escalating U.S. worries about the persistent computer network probes, attacks and industrial espionage that already have stolen billions of dollars in high-tech data from U.S. companies and could eventually shut down critical water or power plants.

This is a crucial decision and I certainly hope that a solution can be reached that is far short of having to impose executive power in order to shore up our national security.

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