Private Vs. Public Online Security

Private Vs. Public Online Security

This was an interesting article I came across during some blog research. In one of my other classes: Government Policy towards Business, we discussed the management and the operational actives involved with online security. Two groups had a a debate in class, and they argued weather our online security should be run by a private of public entity. It's rather interesting to hear both points, because they were both fairly convincing. Private companies have been responsible in the past for firewalls, anti spam, and the security of people's computers and information. They have experience in the field, and hold much less of a threat to hackers as opposed to a government run security. I read in an article Hackers breached the security networks of top US defense contractors. This sounded extremely dangerous and ridiculous.  Not much classified information was accessed because it was locked down on a private network; however, it's possible that some details on future weapons systems as well as weapons in use today in Iraq and Afghanistan were compromised.  Industry  receives the initial respect for the complete launch and maintenance of the online-networked world, so if anything they deserve the responsibility to 'secure' it. Another main point that industry had was that government is much too wide spread to be completely focused that this subject and deliver the attention it requires. I do think publicly run online security would be detrimental to an already well established field to date.

 http://www.newser.com/story/119629/hackers-breach-security-of-us-defense-contractors.html