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power plants are getting a new protective shield called perfect citizen. it is already controversial, because the national security agency, the eavesdropping arm of the u.s. intelligence is involved in it, and much of it is classified. the nsa would not give us details on how the program would work and neither would raytheon the defense contractor which according to the wall street journal got a big money contract for the project. i spoke with jim lewis at the center for strategic and international studies. as part of the research, lewis has been in contact with the government officials who know about the cyber shield project. what do we know about the perfect citizen program, and what it hopes to accomplish? well, the department of defense has been concerned for more than a year about the problems that the u.s. has been having in cyber space both on d.o.d. networks and critical infrastructure and there is a fear that some of the foreign opponents may have the ability to attack u
controlling america s power grids, air traffic control systems and possibly power plants are getting a new protective shield called perfect citizen. it s already controversial, because the national security agency, the eavesdropping arm of national intelligence is involved in it and much of it is classified. the nsa didn t give us much detail on how the program will work, neither did ray theon. i spoke with jim lewis at the center for strategic and international studies. lewis has been in contact with people who know about the cyber shield project. what do we know about this perfect citizen program and what it hopes to accomplish? the department of defense has been concerned for more than a year about the problems that the u.s. has been having in cyberspace, both on dod networks, but also on critical infrastructure, and there s a real fear that some of our foreign opponents had the ability to make attack us
comment. locking cyber intrusion is a key goal for this administration. working across government and with the private sector. a spokesman for the military cyber command had no comment on specifics in the report but did say we have an active defense system in place to hunt in d.o.d. networks and prevent infiltration. shepard: do they know who did it? reporter: experts were not shy about pointing fingers at china based on the types of targets and the type of information stolen and it comes in the wake of top level resignations in u.s. government cyber security jobs over the past few days, homeland security security cyber security chief who resigned in march the same month that the pentagon said it suffered the worst cyber attack in history with 24,000 data files being stolen. so, this report just add as new layer of concern to an already