Part 45 (1/2)
Tyrone hated the position he was in, but Scott had given him a ltoe recently It was time to reciprocate
”Off?”
”So far off, so far off that if you turned the light ”On” it would still be off”
”It's a fucking mess,” Tyrone said quickly He was relieved to be able to talk about it ”You can't believe it I'ement team in action, but what do I find?”
He shook his head ”They're still trying to decide on the size of the conference table” The reference caught Scott's ear
”No, it's not that bad, but it ether? Who's responsible?”
”Responsible? Ha! No one,” Tyrone chuckled as he recounted the constant battles aencies ”This is the perfect bureaucratic solution No one is responsible for shi+t, no one is accountable, but they all want to run the show And, no one agency clearly has authority It's a fucking disaster”
”No one runs security? In the whole govern it a little, but not too far off base”
”Oh, I gotta hear this,” Scott said reclining in the deep plush cloth covered couch
”Once upon a tiency, no one ever spoke the initials, but it begins with the National Security Agency, got elected by the Depart the Cold War They took their job very seriously
”Then along came NIST and IBM who developed DES The DOD formed the Computer Security Initiative and then the Computer Security Evaluation Center The DOD CSEC became the DOD Computer Security and then after NSA realized that everybody kneho they were, it beca this?”
Scott nodded only not to disrupt the flow
”Ok, in 1977, Carter signed a bill that said to NSA, you take over the classified national security stuff, but he gave the dregs, the unclassified stuff to the NTIA, a piece of Commerce
But that bill an who says, no that's wrong, before we get anything con- structive done, letback to NSA
”That pissed off even ress then passed the Coave NIST the unclassified stuff As a result, NSA closed the NCSC, NIST is underbudgeted by a factor of 100 and in short, they all want a piece of a very small pie That took over 4 years
And that's whose fault it is
”Whose?”
”Congress of course Congress passes the daet stuck in theover their turf or shi+rking responsibility, and well , you get the idea So I've got ECCO to talk to CERT to talk to NIST to talk toand it goes on ad nauseum”
”Sorry I asked,” joked Scott
”In other words,” Ty ady idea e'll do They all see the problem And the scary part?”
”What's that?”
”It looks like it can only get worse”
Tuesday, November 11 White House Press Room