Latest ‘cyber moonshot’ idea is a national DDoS defense system
Phil Quade, formerly the NSA’s top cyber official and White House liaison, calls himself “an Apollo guy” — a big fan of the huge Saturn V rockets which took Americans to the moon in the 1960s. So he rears back when people use the term “moonshot” to lend credibility to a vague idea like “making the internet safe.” “You have to define it,” he says, echoing other critics who’ve suggested that the term “cyber moonshot” lacks the clarity and simplicity of the original lunar mission — to get a man to the moon and bring him back safely. But Quade’s own moonshot — one of a couple of ideas he and other White House staff developed in the waning days of the Obama administration — is very clear and simple, he says: To build a national capacity to counter distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “You need to get the carriers, the solution providers and […]
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