Internet technology threatens national security

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An American research company showed that everything that makes modern web more convenient, common trends such as cloud computing, mobility and total web 2.0, in fact, pose a threat to national security. A study by the Ponemon Institute showed: from the point of view of leading IT specialists of corporations, almost all the trends of the modern web pose a certain information threat to national security. Dangerous trends include cloud computing, virtualization, mobility, cybercrime and cyber terrorism, IT outsourcing, the development of web 2.0, the distribution of open source programs and a large amount of unstructured information. According to IT-specialists, the greatest threat is posed by collaborative services that generate a large amount of poorly structured information. Often, due to the use of such services, secret and non-divulged information is mixed with other and poorly protected. As a result, 79% of the IT employees surveyed concluded that unstructured data generated by collaboration services poses a serious danger to the safety of critical information. You can, for example, recall how Twitter’s non-public business plans leaked through Google Docs. As Google Docs and other, even more complex collaborative services penetrate government agencies more and more, they may well be a threat. In second place with 71% of the votes of professors is cyber terrorism: according to experts, the likelihood of cyber attacks on infrastructure facilities of critical importance is quite high. Third place in the list of dangerous trends is mobility. The insecurity of mobile devices, for many of which there are no antiviruses, the lack of protection when using wireless connections - all this makes government data vulnerable, according to 63% of IT managers. Finally, the fourth place in the ranking with 52% went to Web 2.0 resources: blogs, social networks and wikis. There are several reasons for their danger. On the one hand, they provoke state employees. agencies for reckless disclosure of data. On the other hand, they are an excellent medium for the spread of viruses. The link is not valid

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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