According to a Department of Homeland Security report obtained by Forbes, com, a group of unnamed private sector executives repr

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问题     According to a Department of Homeland Security report obtained by Forbes, com, a group of unnamed private sector executives representing industries including banking, telecommunications and energy have been meeting with the DHS to find ways to more efficiently exchange data on cyber intrusions and digital spying. The DHS wouldn’t share any details of the classified meetings. But the goal of the conferences, according to one former government official, is to build a better system for sharing classified cyber-threat data with private companies.
    Given Presidential Directive 54’s scope and budget, the government should have plenty to share. Over the next seven years, the program’s initiative will spend as much as $30 billion to create a new monitoring system for all federal networks, a combined project of the DHS, the NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The data-sharing plan would offer information gathered by that massive monitoring system to the private sector in exchange for their own knowledge of cyber intrusions and spyware. Presidential Directive 54, is partly a response to a series of cyber intrusions that plagued the Pentagon last summer.
    The nation’s critical infrastructure systems, mostly owned by the private sector, may face a similar threat. But the notion of extending the government’s network monitoring to the nation’s critical infrastructure has raised hackles. Privacy advocates, fearing government intrusion on private networks, have already compared the project to the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program. In a congressional hearing last Thursday, Rep. Paul Broun, said the program seemed "a little like the fox guarding the henhouse. "
    The information sharing strategy revealed in the DHS report may be a compromise. For now, the government is avoiding the controversy of monitoring commercial networks, and instead trading its cyber-threat information for data about intrusions that private companies have detected on their own computers, says Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute, an organization that hosts a crisis center for hacked companies. "To find the bad guys, we’ll need huge analytic engines, with all the right data," he says. "The government can’t force these companies to let it watch traffic in commercial networks, so this is one way to get the private sector involved. "
    That doesn’t mean the data-sharing project is a guarantee that government monitoring won’t eventually be expanded to some parts of private industry, Paller says. He sees the project as the first step in convincing critical infrastructure companies to allow some government surveillance of their networks. Companies possessing classified government data, such as defense contractors , are especially likely to be brought under the initiative’s umbrella of surveillance, according to some former government officials.
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选项 A、the project raised by the DHS to share cyber-threat data with private companies.
B、the conferences on Internet services between the DHS and private companies.
C、the cyber-threat to the DHS and private companies.
D、the DHS and private companies joining together to fight cyber-threat.

答案A

解析 本文的主要内容是[A]国土安全部提出的与私企共享威胁网络安全数据的计划。[B]国土安全部和私企之间就网络服务召开的会议。[C]国土安全部和私企面临的网络威胁。[D]国土安全部和私企协同努力,应对网络威胁。该文主要讨论了DHS提出的一个与私企共享关于威胁网络安全机密数据的一个计划,所以[A]为正确答案。而这个计划也是文章开头所提到的双方开会协商的主要议题,所以[B]、[C]两项虽然文中有所提及,但并不是文章的中心主题。这个计划还在讨论中,并没有到双方合作的地步,故[D]不符合实际情况。
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