A recent report brought forth and given to the Department of Homeland Security talked about a complete Internet Outage or a; Cyber Katrina. One, which could happen in the event of a Massive Category Five Hurricane coming ashore at Boston or NYC or grazing one and hitting the other. The report also talked about an Internet Back-Bone attack and the report warned that there would be little you could do and it would disrupt financial markets, stock market, bank process, transportation, Home Land Security and all businesses would be rendered basically offline completely. Depending on the scope of the situation the rest of the routers would be completely bottlenecked and Internet Traffic would stop in gridlock. How probable is this scenario? Enough to scare more than enough IT security consultants and government security experts over the issues and worse off there is no real plan in place to deal with such a problem when or if it does occur. In the event of a cyber attack or cyber disaster it is not as if you could call up FEMA to the rescue, there is no one or agency in place to fix it and restore, re-route or re-boot such a problem. The Department of Homeland Security does have a National Cyber Security Division in with 70 million in funding, but they are not prepared for such a thing. Consider this in 2006. |
