Cybersecurity Czar: Privacy Won't Be a Casualty
Despite being under constant assault from hackers around the globe, U.S. military and government cybersecurity efforts will not compromise individual civil liberties or unnecessarily invade citizens' privacy, according to Gen. Keith Alexander, the National Security Agency's director told attendees at the O'Reilly Media Gov 2.0 Summit.
As eSecurity Planet reports, the refrain echoed what Alexander and others have said in recent months as the government plays catch-up to hackers and malware syndicates looking to infiltrate or destroy some of our country's most sensitive and important information.
Government systems endure more or less constant scrutiny from an array of hackers and other operators at home and abroad probing for vulnerabilities. Defense Department systems, for instance, are subject to roughly 250,000 unauthorized probes every hour, Alexander said.
