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The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) is writing to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in support of President’ Biden’s FY’2022 budget, as a minimum level for federal cybersecurity spending in the coming year.

The U.S. Constitution clearly states that among government’s obligations are to “provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare.” However, it also states that the government is created by “we the people” implying there is more than a hands-off responsibility for the private sector to help achieve these goals.

Numerous factors propel us to rethink our approach to cybersecurity as this blog series maintains. Many of these thoughts revolve around the changing nature of the attackers themselves with their greater size sophistication. Other thoughts turn to the attack methods as new vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited or the nature of the threat itself as we move from assessing risk to entities to a great focus on systemic risks.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cyber Leaders Call on Philanthropy to Help Arlington, VA – In an open letter to private philanthropy, the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) and over 30 professionals from cybersecurity organizations and philanthropic foundations stress the need for more philanthropic giving in cybersecurity. The letter and signers can be seen at cyberphilanthropy.org starting April […]

We were delighted to see this week that the seventh annual Munich Security Conference – arguably one of most prominent, if not the most prominent, events in the world – has adopted the theme of the ISA social media program – #RethinkCybersecurity – as the conference theme.

Dear Members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees: The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) is writing to the in support of using President’ Biden’s FY’2022 far budget, as a minimum level for federal cybersecurity spending in the coming year. It is ISA’s steadfast belief that the funding requirements for federal spending on cybersecurity should not […]

President Biden’s massive infrastructure proposal – dubbed infrastructure for the digital age – includes a wide variety of items not traditionally thought of as infrastructure such as home health care, as well as some items that are very much digital infrastructure such as $650 million for expanded broadband networks.

New Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlined his vision for cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security in a speech yesterday at Hampton College.

This post is a one in the “Rethink Cybersecurity” series. Additional posts in this series are available here Sadly, a quarter century after the cybersecurity information sharing model was created the vast majority of private companies – and government agencies — do not fully engage in any of these programs and many of those that […]