Thursday, June 10, 2010

News update Systems no longer secure


'You will never be a hundred per cent bulletproof and fully protected,' the 62 year-old security expert said. -- ST PHOTO LESTER KOK

HAVING secure and inpenetrable information systems is a thing of the past.
Dr Prescott Winter, former Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of the National Security Agency in the United States, said that government agencies and private companies will have to accept the fact that cyber attacks will happen and that cyber intrusions are inevitable.
'You will never be a hundred per cent bulletproof and fully protected,' the 62 year-old security expert said in an interview with Straits Times.
'What you can do, is to respond quickly, and identify at least in some measure where the attacks are coming from... to reduce the level of impact and to prevent the impact from becoming unacceptable.'
Dr Winter, CTO of ArcSight, a global provider of IT security solutions, is in Singapore this week to meet with government officials to discuss the impact of cyber threats on government agencies and corporations.
Apart from Singapore, he will also be visiting Hong Kong, cities in India, Taiwan and Australia.