The ability of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board to achieve its mission depends crucially on
A) convincing corporations to adopt the more secure Internet2 technology.
B) finding ways to create artificially intelligent monitors of electronic communications.
C) convincing information managers in the private sector to report problems such as hacker attacks and viruses to the government.
D) developing a new wireless technology that provides better data encryption.

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The Critical Infrastructure Protection Board cannot do a good job of finding ways to protect the nation's infrastructure if it doesn't know the nature and extent of the threats the infrastructure faces. Since about 85 percent of the system the board needs to protect is in the private sector, it is critical to obtain cooperation from the CIOs and other information managers. Unfortunately, many CIOs are reluctant to report incidents, fearing that the faith and confidence of investors and the general public in their companies would be shaken if such incidents became public knowledge.

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