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CONGRESSMAN CIRO D. RODRIGUEZ
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DARK SCREEN
By Congressman Ciro D. Rodriguez
As you are getting dressed for work one morning, a sudden power outage takes you by surprise. The weather is clear, and the bills have been paid - there is an eerie silence across your neighborhood. Unknown to you, the entire region has lost power, with major lines of communication and transport frozen in their tracks. Or worse, imagine that the water coming through your pipes contains toxic chemicals or untreated waste, or that air traffic controllers were sitting helplessly as planes were ordered to fly - or crash - into each other.
An attack on our computer networks - a cyber-attack - could lead to any one of these or countless other doomsday scenarios. The Internet and the multitude of computerized networks have changed how we communicate, travel, and shop. We are linked in ways that improve efficiency and productivity, creating opportunities in large and small communities that could not have been imagined just a few years ago. Yet, being linked in this fashion, and because computer networks have become so vital to the operations of government and business, makes us more vulnerable to an intentional attack on our computer systems. Such an attack could not only cause havoc, it could leave terrorists in control of our vital infrastructure systems.
San Antonio is a major US city with a modern infrastructure. The city's business, research, academic, utility and military institutions are linked to others across the state and the country. Like other major cities, San Antonio must be prepared to detect, prevent and respond to any possible cyber-terrorism. In order to assess our readiness I recommended earlier this year that the area's military, academic, business and governmental institutions at all levels come together and develop an exercise, which we are calling Dark Screen, to gauge our strengths and address our weaknesses. Through such intense preparation exercises, we will be better able to protect ourselves against cyber-terrorism in the future.
Dark Screen seeks first to test our region's capabilities and resources to detect, prevent and respond to a cyber-terror attack. Second, Dark Screen will assess the ability of local, state, and federal authorities in this region to communicate effectively during and after such an attack.
Locally, the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) at UTSA is leading the planning and execution of Dark Screen. The Air Force Air Intelligence Agency, which is a CIAS partner, is also playing a leadership role in bringing together the various stakeholders.
Planning groups have already met numerous times, and in late May, UTSA hosted a plenary planning session attended by representatives from the city, the county, the Army and Air Force, the state Attorney General's office, the FBI, and others. The broad range of participants, the very high level of interest among the various parties and the sense that cyber-terrorism poses a real threat were evident at this planning session.
I look forward to seeing the fruits of their efforts.
Our security at home is paramount. With proper planning and coordination we can better protect ourselves from the threats we face.
Dark Screen will be a large step in that direction, one that will put San Antonio and South Texas on the map as a center for preparedness and infrastructure security.
EMBARGOED UNTIL
July 7, 2002
Contact: Sean Foertsch
(202) 225-1640
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Greg - Many thanks for sharing your phased approach to
scenario development for Operation Dark Screen . . .
Q: Has your team explored *recruiting regional resources*
from IACLEA Members for community-based effort?
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5-Jul-2002 Experts Doubt Cyber-Terrorism Scenarios
SAN FRANCISCO, CA: As previously anticipated by ERRI analysts, computer security experts are today saying that they believe that recent government reports about Al-Qaeda-related computer are nothing but hyperbole. Despite growing government concern that al Qaeda and its allies may try to use computers to disrupt electrical power grids, transportation systems and emergency communication networks, many experts on terrorism and computer security are skeptical about the overall menace of cyber-terrorism, an article in the San Francisco Chronicle says.
"The notion that somebody armed with a laptop in Peshawar, Pakistan, could bring down California's power grid is pretty far-fetched," said Kevin Terpstra, communications director for the California Department of Information Technology, an agency responsible for assessing the security of the state's computer systems. "There is reason to be concerned about computer security and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities...but the likelihood of this type of an attack is very small."
John Pike, a weapons systems analyst and director of Globalsecurity.org, a defense policy organization in Washington, D.C., said that cyber-attack scenarios are too complex to have much appeal for terrorist groups. Furthermore, he added, they are likely to fail...
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