By Kevin Coleman Defense Tech Chief Cyber War Correspondent If you read recent comments by White House Cyber Security Coordinator Howard Schmidt, that’s the conclusion you might draw. The web posting titled “Howard Schmidt Dismisses Cyber War Fears” has left many asking — does the left hand know what the right hand is saying? Troubling Comments in the post: Schmidt, in a face-to-face interview with GovInfoSecurity.com, said the federal government and the private businesses that control 85 percent of the nation’s critical IT infrastructure are better positioned than ever to fend off massive digital assaults. Well, I guess that could be true; however, that could leave many to believe we have an appropriate level of defense, are safe and we need not invest in cyber defense. These are two points with which I strongly disagree. Schmidt questioned whether such an event as a cyber war can exist. “A cyber war is just something that we can’t define,” he said. “I don’t even know (how a) cyber war would benefit anybody.” How about the benefits a terrorist organization would gain by misadjusting the computerized supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) controls on a water treatment facility and making people ill
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