Advocacy group faults federal government for lack of fraud prevention.(CYBER SECURITY)

Manufacturing Business Technology, March, 2006

A Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) report released last December roundly criticizes the federal government for not doing enough to curb cyber crime. The alliance--formed two years ago by system security vendors McAfee, Symantec, Check Point Software Technologies, Entrust, and others--gave the federal government failing grades in seven of 12 areas for which CSIA gave policy proposals in early 2005.

Reflective of the dire problem cyber crime poses to the economy and to national security, the report gauged the public's confidence in cyber security in its first Digital Confidence Index at only 58 out of 100, a failing grade (see graphic). According to Alan Paller, research director for Bethesda, Md.-based SANS Institute, "The economic criminal...

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