By Nick Heath
Published: Thursday 06 March 2008
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Name
Haydn Rees
Location
Eindhoven
Occupation
Techncial Analyst
Comment
A military solution? Is this an early April Fool? This suggestion is farcical.
The SAS have no powers unless you mean the software, and that only has the power of business intelligence and predictive analysis.
Beef up the CESG if you like. Recruit and retain all the geek-coppers and bright squaddies you like. Badge them any way you like; the people who end up fighting cyber-crime will come from a fairly narrow profile because geekiness is not something you can teach. Penitration Testers/Intrusion Detectors don't have to have; a 140+ I.Q.; bad hair; a Computer Science degree; and be part nocturnal, it's just that most of the people who do it, conform to the description.
It's a technical task, most of which is boring. You can't publicise your successes, and everyone else will publicise your failures.
We will be comprehensively stuffed unless we build a large well funded well-regulated private sector InfoSec industry now.
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