Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities the experts told the assembled Senators that the U.S. government needed to abandon the notion that it could keep outsiders off its computer networks.
“We’ve got the wrong mental model here,” Dr. James S. Peery, director of the Information Systems Analysis Center at Sandia National Laboratories, testified. “I don’t think that we would think that we could keep spies out of our country. And I think we’ve got this model for cyber that says, ‘We’re going to develop a system where we’re not attacked.’ I think we have to go to a model where we assume that the adversary is in our networks. It’s on our machines, and we’ve got to operate anyway. We have to protect the data anyway."
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