Alan Paller, director of the SANS (System Administration, Networking and Security) Institute, a security research organization in Bethesda, Md.
That institutional insecurity, says Alan Paller, researcher director of the SANS Institute, is the result of a private contractor system that actually rewards insecure coding.
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"Every one of the faculty, every one of the undergraduates and every one of the graduate students is engaged in real-world exercises, " says Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute, a cybersecurity training organization.
Alan Paller, director of research at SANS Institute, a computer-security organization, said that the level of cyberattacks, including against power companies and critical infrastructure, has shot up in the last seven or eight months.
The owners of hacked sites should be held responsible for their visitors' exposed data, just as hacked companies are held responsible for customer accounts, argues Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute, a security training organization.
"It's not unreasonable that the NSC and NEC both oversee the cyber czar's activities, but a powerful person may not want to be in that position, " Alan Paller, the director of the security-focused SANS Institute told Forbes in July.
Over the past two years, cybercriminals extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from critical infrastructure companies, according to Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute, an organization that hosts a crisis center for hacked companies. (See: America's Hackable Backbone).
Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, for instance, made this argument to us when he explained to us why offensive hacking should be included in the Cyber Challenge program for finding and training young hackers, despite the risk of fostering young cybercriminals.
Regardless of what kind of monitoring is implemented, it will need to include the private sector to stop the epidemic of cyber theft of sensitive government data, says Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, an organization that offers crisis consultation to hacked companies.
"Any connection between the FCC and any statement of what needs to be done in cybersecurity appears to be poison to these companies that control the Internet, " said Alan Paller, a co-chairman of the group and founder of the Sans Institute, a cybersecurity research and education institute.
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