Lastly, the National Security Agency believes the nation needs a common selection of national security information guarantee elements and is applying its expertise to develop the essential technology to create a national cyber-attack detection and response center. The center combines a variety of sensors that can be applied at vital infrastructure locations including the telecommunications infrastructure, with sophisticated, broad-scale analytic techniques to provide a dynamic view of the threats to critical infrastructures from global cyberspace. These techniques should be shared by a selection of national security agencies, which would include federal, industry, and regional components to allow simultaneous detection, defense, and recovery of vital services.
The economic prosperity that our nation enjoys today is largely founded in the Information Age and in our global leadership in information technology. Our continued leadership and prosperity in the global economy may well hinge on our national commitment to act as leaders in bringing integrity and to the global information environment we have helped to create. The administration has sent a clear message via PDD-63 that the time to act is now, and the NSA is well positioned and ready to support the charge with our technical know-how. Information superiority in the Information Age is a clear national essential.
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