How should private companies start preparing for the cyber security market?
Sami: Private companies should start thinking more strategically about their defenses. There are lots of widgets out there; firewalls, virus detection tools but a top down strategic approach is lacking for the defense of the private sector mission. They should be thinking about continuity of operations and cyber attack scenarios that could significantly interfere with their company’s mission and that could kill the company. They need to be more strategic in better investing their money for defending against normal attacks; standard criminals and organized crime. They also need to need to understand their role and help the country defend itself in the event of an extraordinary attack. They need to work with the government on models in developing the capability. the private sector who owns the critical infrastructures such as electrical power, banking, telecommunications, oil & gas, what I think of as the hypercritical four, need to be intimately involved both in the planning and the exe
