IP: U.S. GOV'T PLANS COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM

[Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

The federal government is planning a centralized emergency response team to
respond to attacks on the U.S. information infrastructure.  The Computer
Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University, which is financed
through the Defense Department, will play a major role in developing the new
interagency group, which will handle security concerns related to the
Internet, the telephone system, electronic banking systems, and the
computerized systems that operate the country's oil pipelines and electrical
power grids. (Chronicle of Higher Education 5 Jul 96 A19)




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