IT professionals have their hands full just keeping up with user demands. Operations and management, Y2K concerns and so forth. What is Needed of the Policy Community Cooperation in at least two levels is desired of the policy community. At the organizational level, incident resolution should be proactively supported. Ultimately, when problems arise, security officers need to communicate.
Help is needed in tracking the true source of the attack.
Confirming that the source of the attack is within a specific organization is critical, as is insuring that future such incidents are discouraged. This results in inadvertent, exploitable flaws in otherwise solid security solutions. These same organizations may be exposed to unacceptable risk while believing that they are secure. If this is successfully established among the collaborating organizations, a healthy cyber infrastructure could assist in maintaining a lower-risk throughout. This level of collaboration becomes critically important since automated, proactive, and adaptive responses must proceed faster than the attack escalates in order to thwart the attack.