What I’ll Tell the G20 Cybersecurity Dialogue Meeting in Riyadh Today

Posted on February 3, 2020 at 7:16 am

By Larry Clinton I’m honored to be one of about 15 outside speakers who have been asked to address the G20 Cybersecurity Dialogue — part of the G20 Digital Economy Task Force — at their invitation–only meeting in Riyadh. I’m delighted that the world’s largest economies are launching an effort to look at our cybersecurity problems […]


Solarium Commission Off to a Good Start: What’s Next (Part II)

Posted on January 9, 2020 at 10:30 am

Cyberspace Solarium Commission Co-Chair Sen. Angus King (I-ME) has “leaked” to us that the Commission is virtually unanimous in the desire to see government process for cybersecurity overhauled. As we discussed in this space yesterday, that is a great, if not exactly novel, idea. But as the old saying goes, every great idea eventually devolves […]


ISA: Solarium Commission is Off to a Good Start, Now What?

Posted on January 8, 2020 at 9:32 am

In 2016 the ISA published a 12-step program for Congress and the new Administration to address the growing cybersecurity threat. Number 4 on the list (after act with greater urgency, spend more money, and understand cybersecurity is not just about IT) was that “Government needed to get organized to reflect the digital age.” Yesterday the […]


Internet Security Alliance Top 25 Highlights of 2019

Posted on January 6, 2020 at 11:40 am

INTERNET SECURITY ALLIANCE TOP 25 HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE YEAR 2019 ISA Board Completes Update of National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Cyber Risk Handbook. ISA is the exclusive partner association for the NACD handbook. This will be the third edition of the handbook, which ISA updates every three years, it contains multiple new sections. It […]


ISA Board to Team-Teach Cybersecurity Course at Wharton

Posted on January 2, 2020 at 10:38 am

The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) Board of Directors has accepted an offer from the Wharton ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Pennsylvania to team-teach a course on cybersecurity this summer. The Stonier program runs from June 4-11. “What sets this course apart from others, and what I believe is especially attractive […]


Cyware Labs awarded as ‘Excellent Threat Intelligence Solutions’ at National Cyber Security Summit

Posted on November 26, 2019 at 9:35 am

Bengaluru: Cyware Labs, a leading product-based cybersecurity company has recently been awarded as ‘Excellent Threat Intelligence Solutions’ at the recently held National Cyber Security Summit & Awards 2019 by Communication, Multimedia And Infrastructure (CMAI) Association of India. The awards were held to recognize organizations with the greatest achievements and contributions in the field of cybersecurity in […]


ISA Announces Second Asian Handbook for Boards and Cyber

Posted on November 22, 2019 at 9:20 am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Larry Clinton President and CEO, Internet Security Alliance (202) 236-0001 lclinton@isalliance.org Delhi, India – In back-to-back presentations to the Indian National Cybersecurity Summit and the international Conference on Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity today, Internet Security Alliance (ISA) President Larry Clinton announced the launch of a collaboration between several Indian-based trade groups and […]


Agency gets praise for risk management; efforts advance along broad front

Posted on November 19, 2019 at 12:02 pm

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s “risk management” philosophy needs faster and deeper uptake throughout government, a key industry leader says, while developments over the past week underscored the breadth of CISA activities across issues and industries. And the House today is expected to approve a continuing resolution funding the Department of Homeland Security and […]


ISA’S CLINTON: GDPR SHOWS “FUNDAMENTAL MISUNDERSTANDING” OF CYBER PROBLEM

Posted on November 18, 2019 at 12:07 pm

The Internet Security Alliance’s President Larry Clinton suggested that one of the main reasons we are not making much progress in securing cyberspace is that we are “focused on the wrong problem.” Clinton used the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as an example, claiming it represented a fundamental misunderstanding of the essence the […]


ISA’s Clinton: Government shift to risk management is positive, but must accelerate

Posted on November 15, 2019 at 12:19 pm

The federal government is gradually shifting to a “risk management” approach to cyber — epitomized by the creation of CISA and its National Risk Management Center last year — but that effort lags behind the private-sector’s embrace of “sophisticated” tools and must accelerate rapidly, says Larry Clinton, head of the industry-based Internet Security Alliance. “We […]