Susan Landau on NSA Efforts to Secure Private Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure
Susan Landau has a new paper – entitled Under the Radar: NSA's Efforts to Secure Private-Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure – up at the Journal of National Security Law and Policy. From the abstract:
Landau explains the National Security Agency’s little-known function of providing communications security (COMSEC) to private companies, which has involved an improvement of security and privacy of the domestic communi
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Susan Landau has a new paper – entitled Under the Radar: NSA's Efforts to Secure Private-Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure – up at the Journal of National Security Law and Policy. From the abstract:
Landau explains the National Security Agency’s little-known function of providing communications security (COMSEC) to private companies, which has involved an improvement of security and privacy of the domestic communications infrastructure. She examines the history of the program and how the NSA’s behavior towards the private sector has shifted since the 1950’s, as well as the rationale behind these radical changes. Ultimately, Landau argues that providing national security tools to the private sector is outside the mission of the NSA and should be done by an entity more in sync with the private sector and international community.
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