White House Tackling the Economics of Cybersecurity

GovTechGuy writes "White House Cybersecurity czar Howard Schmidt will be hosting a meeting Wednesday with the Secretaries of DHS and Commerce in which he is expected to discuss the administration's new attempt to change the economic incentives surrounding cybersecurity. Right now, launching attacks on private companies is so cheap and relatively risk-free that there's almost no way that industry can win. The White House could be considering things like tax incentives, liability and insurance breaks, and other steps to try and get companies to invest in protecting their networks. It's also likely to dovetail with a step up in enforcement, so hackers be wary."

how about getting off of windows? to bad OS/2 died

[Joe The Dragon]

how about getting off of windows? to bad OS/2 died as why is the hole filled windows have to run on ATM's?

if getting of windows is to hard about the fixing the apps with big security holes in them / apps that need admin mode to run.

Re:how about getting off of windows? to bad OS/2 d

[Anonymous Coward]

WHAT?!

Re:fix the banks

[stanlyb]

What? You wanna every single individual to have secure, encrypted and independent communication channel??? Just forget it, in fact, the government wants you to be scared and afraid, and thus more "manageable".