U.S. CIO Cites Cybersecurity Risk During Shutdown

    • Looking at this from another angle it also reduces an attack service for hackers. With less employees working on computers you reduce one of the biggest threats to network security.

    • As an observation: doesn't publishing this article highlight this critical weakness? I agree that additional allocation to cyber security for the goverment would have been wise during the shutdown; however, I think it might have been worth waiting until after the shutdown to voice this.

    • Might as well post on FB that you will be out of the country for two weeks and your address is...and you have some awesome video equipment and jewelry for the taking!

    • +1 on previous comments. Why write this article ?

    • Sleep tight, the NSA is alive and working to prevent cyber attacks [as well as spying on Americans]. The shutdown did not affect them.

    • Why does it not seem surprising that cannot seem to STOP giving other countries an Instruction Booklet on how to dismantle our own country! Can we keep focused on building our security instead of giving away recipes on breaching our security?

    • He's rather vague about what might happen. How is there any danger beyond some kids taking down the website while an apache exploit goes unpatched? Is the infrastructure really so bad that they don't have an IDS in place?








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