The director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, called on businesses to co-operate with the authorities for data breaches. This means that business in the publicity, is something they, according to him, for love must take.
Mueller said during a keynote at the RSA Conference, a security conference in San Francisco. Mueller focused his call on companies that are present in the room. “The maintaining of silence will take us on the long-term help,” he said. “It is not a question of ‘either’ but of ‘when'”.
By this he means each company ultimately is the victim of a weiter. “There are two kinds of businesses,” said Mueller: “Companies that have been hacked, and those yet to be hacked.” No company is immune, he warns. Therefore, he calls upon companies to work together, where confidentiality of information must be ensured. The news of a hack can, however, be in the public domain as a company to cooperate.
The observations of Mueller are in the Netherlands also relevant. Here is probably an obligation to report data breaches, but the ict industry is: the image would be too large. Mueller says, however: “it is in The interest of companies to have information on hacks to share with the government.”
Mueller thinks that cybercrime is ultimately the place of greatest threat to the United States is taking. Now it is terrorism. Also, international cooperation is, according to Mueller important to cybercrime counter: “national Borders are no obstacle for hackers, but for the police,” he says.
The FBI director did not specifically address digital terrorism. During the same conference, said beveiligingsonderzoeker Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure that of ‘cyber-terrorism’ at this point, yet no great danger emanates. Hypponen and Mueller both acknowledge, however, that digital media by terrorists to be used, for example, to exchange information and propaganda to the world.