Keeping the web safe

US officials are deploying the latest tools to keep cyberspace safe for commerce and protect the US information infrastructure, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.

Ms Napolitano, speaking at the National Press Club, emphasised that homeland security and US economic security went hand in hand.

“Cyberspace is an increasingly busy area for all of us,” said Ms Napolitano in her annual speech on the state of US homeland security.

“In today’s high-tech security and commercial environments, we must also focus beyond just the physical movement of goods and people across our borders,” she said.

Homeland Security officials aimed to create a secure environment for the flow of cyber commerce and help support a secure marketplace for the exchange of goods and ideas, she said.

“We are deploying the latest tools across the federal government to protect critical systems, while also sharing security information with the private sector to help them protect their own operations,” she added.