Larry Irving, head of the U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, acknowledges the government needs the cooperation of private industry to conduct a thorough analysis of the infrastructure of a variety of industries to help probe for vulnerabilities. Those industries include telephone, information technology, cable, satellite, paging, wireless, and even the broadcasting industry. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the Cyber Crime Unit announced it would work closely with Interpol. Ray Kendall, Interpol chief, welcomed that news. But the private sector has the funds that could be quickly directed to purchasing equipment and could move much more quickly in response.
Governments take a longer time for such authorizations.
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