Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization

The President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) is appointed by the President to provide independent expert advice on maintaining America’s preeminence in advanced information technology (IT). PITAC members are IT leaders in industry and academia with expertise relevant to critical elements of the national IT infrastructure such as high-performance computing, large-scale networking, and high-assurance software and systems design. The Committee’s studies help guide the Administration’s efforts to accelerate the development and adoption of information technologies vital for American prosperity in the 21st century.

PITAC found that the Nation’s IT infrastructure - integral to national and homeland security and everyday life - is highly vulnerable to attack. While existing technologies can address some vulnerabilities, fundamentally new architectures and technologies are needed to address the larger structural insecurities of an infrastructure developed in a more trusting time when mass cyber attacks were not foreseen. PITAC offers four findings and recommendations on how the Federal government can foster the development of new architectures and technologies to secure the Nation’s IT infrastructure for the 21st century.

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Cyber Security : A Crisis of Prioritization