[pchelpers] Article:Simon Hendery: Cyber crime gets more spooky

5:00AM Thursday March 27, 2008
By Simon Hendery


As cyber-criminals become increasingly powerful and better organised,
those working against them on the "good" side of IT security seem to be
responding with a more cloak-and-dagger approach to their work.

A case in point: Scott Montgomery, vice president of product management
at Nasdaq-listed internet security firm Secure Computing, who visited
New Zealand last week.

Montgomery's CV lists him as an adviser to a number of Washington DC
security consultancies.


Given a major US-led multi-nation cyber-terrorism war games exercise -
Cyber Storm II - had wrapped up just days earlier, that seemed like a
good topic to quiz Montgomery on.

Unfortunately the security shutters came down very quickly. Montgomery
refused to even confirm or deny whether he was personally involved in
the exercise, which was aimed at testing defences in the US, UK,
Australia, New Zealand and Canada against online attacks.

"That's one area where I really can't comment. The defenders won. That's
all I can say."

More here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10500339
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