More must be done with greater frequency and efficiency, specifically with respect to warnings of particular threats. Get its own house in order. Given the recent report on the ease with which General Accounting Office employees gained access to supposedly secure facilities by posing as law enforcement officers, we can only hope that the government's virtual security is better than its physical security. Improve law enforcement's ability to detect and prosecute cybercrime. The government must continue to strengthen its own technological capabilities to investigate crime over the Internet.
Additional training is needed, including at the state and local levels.
Cybersecurity scholarships and the creation of a new cyber-corps with specialized training would also help. Information technology has made many of our nation's essential services enormously more robust and reliable. Indeed, the technological advances in our information infrastructure sparked the dramatic rise in productivity underlying the economic success of the 1990s. Yet the same interconnectedness that allows us to increase efficiency and opens new frontiers of commerce and government make us more vulnerable. Better protection of our computer networks is essential to the public and private sectors.