Cyber-warfare.

• Author: Johnson, Josh
• Position: READERS'FORUM

* The January 2011 article, "Cyberattacks Reaching New Heights of Sophistication," (p.33) was definitely a wakeup call. Information security is a must have on every level. However, with all the advances in technology and hardware security devices, why are we not forcing the ISPs to implement front-end security?

Companies tried this many years ago but failed because of cost and support but they were on the right track. Simply, we need to segregate the functional networks on the Internet by creating a physical Gov net, Health net ... etc., and keep them off the Internet. It's either that or force the ISPs to encrypt all outgoing and incoming traffic to and from the clients.

A virtual private network hardware security appliance on the front end would allow...