The Bush administration signed off Friday on the final version of the United States' strategy for protecting the Internet and securing information systems. The policy statement, called the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, calls for the government to work with private industry to create an emergency response system to cyberattacks and to reduce the nation's vulnerability to such threats.
"Securing cyberspace is an extraordinarily difficult strategic challenge that requires a coordinated and focused effort from our entire society--the federal government, state and local government, the private sector and the American people," President George W. Bush wrote in a letter introducing the document.
The strategy document included several modifications of a previous draft released last September. These modifications included a focus on five specific policy initiatives and the allocation of much of the responsibility for securing the country with the newly established Department of Homeland Security.
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