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Senior DHS cybersecurity official Bruce McConnell: Current security approach like ‘Whac-A-Mole’

Senior DHS cybersecurity official Bruce McConnell recently compared current US computer security response to the game “Whac-A-Mole.” “A threat pops up here, we whack it down, and another one comes up here – this is the environment that many of your enterprise cybersecurity officers are facing,” said McConnell, as quoted by FCW’s Ben Bain at [...]

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Booz Allen’s Mark Herman: Ready to wargame for stronger cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a little like Whac-A-Mole; you hit one issue and another pops up. So says Mark Herman, Booz Allen Hamilton vice president. “Cyber is a very complex problem to which you might consider simple solutions that won’t work,” says Herman. “It’s an integrated fabric so if you change your cyber policy in one area [...]

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