8. Foster the industry-government partnership for improving services and security in public telecommunications.[12] Since government relies heavily on public telecommunications systems (e.g., about 90 percent of DOD's telecommunications are provided by public carriers), improved security, integrity, and assurance of services is crucial. Electronic government will rely even more heavily on public carrier telecommunications for services. Fostering this relationship includes the following: ---The voluntary and cooperative development of a unified concept of operational security for new technological developments such as universal personal telecommunications. The universal personal telecommunications concept provides personal telecommunications services regardless of location, terminal or network access point. For example, individuals are assigned a unique personal network number so that services may reach them anytime and anywhere in the network. Within this context, the standards community needs to address the issues of national security, emergency preparedness, priority, access, fraud, and information privacy. The National Communica-tions System should work through the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, with technical assistance from NSA and NIST, to foster government and industry liaison for developing security for Universal Personal Telecommunications capabilities and ensure National Security/ Emergency Preparedness. ---The development and issuance of appropriate technical information bulletins for shared industry use that address security assessments of wireless access to commercial systems. The National Communications System and the Federal Communications Commission, working with public telecommunications services providers, should ensure information bulletins address all telecommunications threats. ---Working with industry to cooperatively improve security, integrity, and availability of the public switched network (PSN) provided by the telecommunications industry. The National Communications System and industry, through the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and its supporting groups, should foster conducting vulnerability assessments, sharing lessons learned, identifying improvements in legislation to protect PSNs, reporting on vulnerability incidents, and research on telecommunications security areas. Endnotes 12. The Office of the Manager, National Communications System, Technology and Standards Analysis Report, "Concept of Operations for NS/EP Applications of Universal Personal Telecommunications," May 1993.
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