Not all "mergers" make sense, even in the name of reducing costs:
"The Department of Homeland Security will announce Friday that the public- private U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) will merge with the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications (NCC), an interagency group of 22 Federal departments and agencies first created by a U.S. President in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The pending merger was discussed October 29 at a conference on cyber issues at the National Defense University. One expert at the conference expressed concern that centralizing the functions of the two groups might work against their effectiveness given the widely distributed nature of the Internet. The primary issue this affects is in response. The military itself is commanded hierarchically but distributes capability among different commands. Unifying the agencies can help with funding but slow response and dilute capability, said an associate professor at the Calumet campus of Purdue University." Source: http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/10/29/dhs-to-announce-cyber-merger/ ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. - Calvin Coolidge victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
