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Internet Deflection System For CyberSecurity The Internet's popularity among Americans is presenting new responsibilities for the the federal government to consider using advanced technology processes for defense, public safety, and cyber defense communications. Currently, websites are supplementing and replacing traditional media in popularity. The Public's attention during an evolution of events and incidents including disasters, incidents, or national emergencies is now focused toward online retrieval of quantities of emergency details and communications from a variety of websites through a variety of electronic Internet access devices and access points. Wired, wireless, and satellite Internet exchange of data is also becoming more important through Internet website communication processes and applications. Internet Use During Emergencies and Threats Americans are often accessing the Internet for critical weather, security, education, health, safety, and news information. During emergencies and threats, Internet use increases. Recent disasters have shown the American public's reliance on the Internet as a primary mechanism for information retrieval during and after incidents is vast. High Internet use during recent hurricanes, tornadoes, and 9/11 is verified. American Internet dependence during incidents will continue to increase. The availability of unlimited quantities of emergency information and details through Internet website postings serves a greater potential to protect citizens. Traditional broadcast media and other online media companies are now promoting multi-media websites as ideal destinations for the public to access news, weather, and information. The public's dependency on multi-media websites and public awareness Internet sites such as school websites, government websites and hospital websites is expected to increase in popularity and importance. National Emergency Internet Deflection System (NEIDS) The Internet is surpassing other forms of communications in popularity. The reliance on Internet mechanisms requires preparations be made to assure delivery and accessabiity. The federal government should be prepared to direct use of the Internet more effectively to warn, protect and defend. It should also be in a position to react to cyberattacks on particular websites or groups of websites. A concise system is needed that allows authoritative interruption of all American public use websites in a secure way during national, regional, and local emergencies. By deflecting key and critical websites via online DNS (Domain Name Server) administrative mechanisms, during or before disasters or attacks, public attention and or Internet traffic can be properly diverted. Internet traffic can also be diverted with this system to ensure important websites are not compromised. Internet deflection through interruptive administrative domain name processes ensure public website alerts and website use are more secure. This system and a secure national command base for authorized DNS deflection of websites should be built and setup as soon as possible. This center and system to be part of the Federal Governments EAS or national defense and security plan as a response for defense and protection of our national and state institutions and citizens. The ability to use websites for remote continuity of operations or emergency communications is now important. Using advanced DNS technology any institution can deflect its normal marketing website to serve as a disaster communication gateway quickly. All public institutions including public safety organizations, schools, hospitals, government agencies,defense organizations, and media companies should have an emergency disaster communications websites that can be made available at any and all times through DNS partial alert deflection or DNS full disaster deflection. The government should prepare and guide the nation for such a communication system that ensures all public serving entities are prepared to communicate effectively via internet applications that are waiting and available for public need. These disaster communication applications are best available at popular domain names addresses and Internet sites already in use. DNS Website Deflection technology allows popular websites to be electively or automatically intercepted and utilized for disaster communications in case of a need for the purpose of transferring data, warnings, reports, or assistance information. The system can also be used to divert cyber attacks away from systems so that critical sites remain for defense and stability. Interruption of public use websites can take place instantly using host name and domain name server approaches, on a nationwide basis or on smaller regional and local level, without risk of failure. The advantage of this type of web deflection system is that it does not rely on interfacing equipment signals for intermediary web alerts or warnings, but instead permits alerts, data, and communications delivery to bypass any intermediary hardware or servers therefore insuring public or institutional Internet delivery of warnings. Wireless Access Low Bandwidth Wireless text alerts can also be initiated to reference Americans to comprehensive emergency details through deflected websites. This process requires no new equipment and allows Americans to quickly be directed to media websites for quantities of emergency details or directives. After receiving text alerts via cell phone Americans can access websites from any Internet device available including, PC's, laptops, cell phones, or other wired or wireless devices. NEIDS enables Intelligent monitoring to facilitate text alerts through cell towers via sector to reference deflected web banners occuring nationally or regionally. Deflection Process The ability of the The President, State or local EMA's, or local and community public safety institutions to interrupt public websites through the administrative control DNS based deflection process is accomplished for the purpose of providing key critical communication and information even during infrastructure collapse. Hospitals in the private sector are already using this system in the event of disaster. When an institutional website is threatened as a primary destination for information retrieval, a manual or automated deflection process ensures continuance of alert presentations or replacement of the original website with a secondary disaster website, continuity of operations alternative website, or a primary alert and warning banner. This new deflection platform allows interception of general websites for national and local emergency alerts and communications. Having a network platform that permits alert deflection, interruption, and control via online mechanisms ensures emergency alerts remain online at the domain source, even during a compromising event. Such a system can better protect citizens, communities, and our Federal and State institutions. Emergency web-based alerts or deflected websites can continue to warn additional public populations at the website domain source even when public use websites and their host servers are destroyed. Alerts on thousands of websites is needed to properly inform and protect. This should be facilitated in a way that ensures alerts and website communications continue and are delivered during infrastructure collapse or attack. Internet Deflection Setup Registration The ability to disseminate online emergency or defense alert information to the American public through informative websites must and should be available during and after web host server infrastructure collapse. By setting up website domain server processes a specific way, the scaled interruption of websites can take place locally, regionally, or nationally with a single click with authority passwords. This interruption process exists now, and could be nationally, regionally, or locally enabled by proper server configuring of public awareness host websites. This configuration process should be utilized as soon as possible on a nationwide scale to properly protect all Americans our web centered institutions. NEIDS System Platform Public use websites, including public and private media websites, school websites, university websites, hospital websites, federal, state, and local government websites are in a position to serve the public or our nation as emergency information online gateways. During emergency events these critical websites can become compromised by events or disturbance. Any online alerts, defense directives, or information dispensed by the government or local EMA's through these sites are threatened when interruption occurs or when host servers are involved in a physical or compromising event or attack. Remaining populations of users accessing warnings through websites cannot receive ongoing alerts or when these accessed public awareness websites are offline. The NEIDS platform ensure alerts and communications remain online and available to warn the American public at the existing website domain name during disasters insuring citizens can receive proper information. Remaining or scattered populations accessing public use websites during incidents can continue to be presented with important emergency alerts, websites, and warnings. Even when the original primary websites are not available due to server loss warnings and alerts can continue to be posted and accessed via remaining American citizen populations through website domains. Enabling System Through public protection guidelines or federal law public awareness websites can be required to participate in the NEIDS System without interference to their normal enterprise use. By configuring domain routing processes properly, any existing public or private use domain or new public use domain name can be setup for perpetual availability of emergency warnings or emergency and disaster website communications. This system includes a central administration authoritative area that can be accessed from any Internet location which permits alert deflection updates from remote locations. Virtual Government Assurance Our American democratic process websites should be setup to use the system in case of threat or incident. If the Capitol Region is evacuated and emergency website dependence is required for each Senate and Representative website then continuance of communication between constituents and their representatives should be ensured through House and Senate deflected website use. When usual administrative representative personnel are lost or not located quickly interception of access of administration privileges is assured so that remaining and available personnel can continue updating democratic representative websites even remotely during a national threat. Defense website availability would be greatly assured with such a system. NEIDS System Implementation and DHS, DOD, FCC, FEMA and NOAA The NEIDS process ensures existing control of website server hosts remain with the domain name owner of any website, but facilitates availability of defense deflection sequence by an authorized outside organization such as local, state, or federal emergency or defense agencies. When public use website domains are to be included in the NEIDS system, configurations are made to typical host servers and NEIDS servers. A multi-step process of configuring server files is undertaken once for authoritative deflection processes to occur during automated or manual deflection initialization. Summary NEIDS alerts are deflected and moved away from an intermediary information provider and redirected to be provided by a primary warning initiator such as the federal government, State EMA or local EMA, or national defense representatives. This direct delivery ensures infrastructure failure does not compromise website alert fulfillment, and communications are still received by the public. The benefit of NEIDS is that it reduces reliance on broadcast signals for ongoing website warning alert presentations. Using redundancies already existing in Internet infrastructure Americans are safer and more likely to receive emergency online web communications and alerts. The availability of the Internet in homes, offices, schools and other locations has increased the public's reliance on public websites during emergencies. This dependence on Internet communications presents new responsibilities for Congress, and the Federal government to utilize advanced technological processes for public protection that increase opportunities of usability of the Internet during infrastructure failure.
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| National Emergency Internet Deflection System, U.S. Patent 7,720,998 B2 202-546-0119 | ||||||||||
