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Letter: Trusted Internet Connections initiative is meaningless

Published on November 27, 2007 - 11:34 AM

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Regarding, “OMB to limit number of Internet connections for agencies,” the government uses thousands of private ISP connections at its smaller field locations. Most of these offices use a virtual private network to connect to their agencies’ network. Without shutting these down, the so-called Trusted Internet Connections initiative is a joke. Any one of these connections can be used by the bad guys to get behind the parameter defenses. Some agencies monitor traffic from these connections, but never to the same degree as the Office of Management and Budget-approved connection that has. The Homeland Security Department’s U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team Einstein program also doesn't watch this traffic.

Just another meaningless mandate that really does nothing to improve security.

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Who's to say they're not going to shutdown all those small ISP connections? When I read "50 internet connections across government", it seems that's what they mean to do. 50 is 50. They hint that all other connections should be converted to Networx contract connections (such as ethernet transport, I'm guessing). It's still insanity to give 2 months planning time and 6 months to implement.

Posted by barbwire on November 27, 2007 - 12:38 PM

I'm not a big government conspiracy person, but how coincidental is it that the IPV6 OMB manadate and this new one coincide in a June '08 time frame that matches the run up to an election and the polishing of resume's of accomplishments. Also, it's in GSA's interests to force the use of its new Networx contract and this OMB manadate seems to be a great vehicle. Unfortunately it puts the agencies under the gun to migrate and reduces the opportunity to negotiate lower circuit and service costs. Many times the GSA contract prices can be beaten, off- contract. So what's the purpose of this last minute mandate to reduce the number of circuits? OMB run out of money for deploying the Einstein devices and decide, "Oh, yeah! We can mandate a hugely disruptive, unfunded migration after the start of the fiscal year and not have to buy all those Einstein devices!" The lunatics are in charge of the asylum. Still.

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