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Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. federal government is working on the defense program, known as the Perfect Citizen technology. The objective is to create a means of detection of cyber attacks on private companies and government agencies that control critical infrastructure such as electricity, nuclear power, chemical and biological industries, and t n.

Supervises the draft U.S. National Security Agency. Now running the NSA is already in the lion’s share of the government and military networks of the U.S. technology. The new project is planned to create interfaces for the partial merger of government and corporate networks and on all the networks put the sensors, which will fulfill the role of early detection of attacks. The sensors will continuously monitor the state of networks and listen to them for “atypical” activity. Through such “points of interaction, can be avoided the need to monitor all networks at once, at a cost of enormous resources.

Sources familiar with the implementation of the program, said that recently an American defense contractor Raytheon Corp won a government tender closed at $100 million. Now the company to design a monitoring system to protect against hacker attacks. Implement a system will most likely other contractors. From the official comments so far and representatives of the NSA and Raytheon refused, wrote CyberSecurity.

However, WSJ notes that the program in its current form quite flawed and American business is not burning with desire to take part in it, believing that Perfect Citizen – this is another attempt of intrusion “Uncle Sam” in the privacy of companies and citizens. There are, however, and the company that called the program an important and say they are ready to cooperate. Sources in the WSJ Raytheon argued that the system is constructed so that the government simply wants to ensure the security and critical infrastructure to get into the personal affairs of the companies it did not intend.

Independent military experts in Washington say that the need for the program has long been evident, and the probability of invasion of privacy is comparable with the probability of invasion of privacy from the outdoor surveillance cameras, which had been long established in the city streets. “This (program) is a logical extension of the federal agencies, done in the past to protect critical infrastructure” – said in Washington.

In this case, an unnamed military official said that while the system is still very far from complete, and even in the States at the level of the federal government has no common vision and understanding of the system.

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