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Meetings to Address White House Strategy to Secure Computer Networks.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2002

By Alan Goldstein, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 27--SAN ANTONIO--Government can't mandate security for the nation's critical computer networks, because so much of the high-tech backbone is owned and operated by private enterprise.

That was the message of the White House's largely voluntary cyberspace security plan, a draft of which was released last week.

But many private-sector technology executives expect the final version to have stronger and more specific language and take less of a laissez faire approach, they said in advance of a town meeting on the subject here Thursday evening.

"It's a step in the right direction," said Jim Gerretson, who heads a cybersecurity group for Dallas-based...

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