The Cold War: Then and now [Video]

An NSA director compares cyber war to US-Soviet Cold War

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When Dickie George of the National Security Agency says, “This is life and death and about our freedom and our way of life,” he’s not talking about the Soviet Union firing nuclear missiles at the U.S. or infiltrating our government with spies bent on subversion. He’s talking about cyber criminals hacking into personal, business or government computers, stealing information, intellectual property and/or money.

George is the Information Assurance Technical Director at the NSA and compared the threats of the current cyber cold war to the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union in a webcast Wednesday hosted by RSA Conference, the network security industry convention held twice annually in the U.S. and Europe, which I cover for news about Microsoft. I found the parallels interesting and provocative.

George says fighting today’s cyber cold war …