Home pagePress CenterIn the Media James Lewis, director of the CSIS Technology and Public Policy Program, was quoted by the Washington Post, "House Lawmakers Question Privacy in Cyber-Security Plan."
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James Lewis, director of the CSIS Technology and Public Policy Program, was quoted by the Washington Post, "House Lawmakers Question Privacy in Cyber-Security Plan."
House lawmakers yesterday raised concerns about the privacy implications of a Bush administration effort to secure federal computer networks from hackers and foreign adversaries, as new details emerged about the largely classified program.
The unclassified portions of the project, known as the "cyber initiative," focus on drastically reducing the number of connections between federal agency networks and the Internet, and more closely monitoring those networks for malicious activity. Slightly more than half of all agencies have deployed the Department of Homeland Security's program. [...]
But Jim Lewis, director of the technology arm of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, called the privacy concerns premature and overblown.
"There's a big difference between intercepting and reading e-mail and reacting to suspicious traffic going across your network," said Lewis, whose employer is working with Congress and the private sector on a set of cyber security policy recommendations for the next president. Read the article
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