National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace

Released on February 14, 2003, it offers suggestions, not mandates, to business, academic, and individual users of cyberspace to secure computer systems and networks.

Ultimately, the National Strategy encourages companies to regularly review their technology security plans, and individuals who use the Internet to add firewalls and anti-virus software to their systems.

It calls for a single federal center to help detect, monitor and analyze attacks, and for expanded cyber security research and improved government-industry cooperation.

[2] The former focuses on flexible plans of actions that are developed and adapted in response to the changes and dynamics existing in the socio-technical systems.

The latter focuses on the strategies that are developed by thoughtfully considering the interconnected elements, methods, and actors in these systems from several points of view or directions.

The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (February 2003) featured the new cabinet-level United States Department of Homeland Security as the lead agency protecting IT . [ 1 ]