Internet Security Alliance (ISA) Comments to Department of Homeland Security on the Initiative to Identify Best Practices for Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations (ISAO)

Posted on April 18, 2015 at 1:29 pm

The March 4, 2015 Federal Register Notice announcing the March 18th ISAO/ISAC Summit indicated that there was an open comment period through April 19th. The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) appreciates the opportunity to offer our comments as our preliminary input and initial contributions to the ISAO discussion in addition to the statement for the public […]

Internet Security Alliance (ISA) Comments to the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

Posted on October 10, 2014 at 1:42 pm

Topics Addressed This section of our comments addresses issues faced by eight critical infrastructure sectors. The authors of these comments are mostly chief information security officers for large companies within those sectors. Namely (and in order): Defense Industrial Base; Healthcare; Financial Services; Energy (specifically, local utilities); Information Technology; Telecommunications; Manufacturing; and, Food and Agriculture. Readers […]

INTERNET SECURITY ALLIANCE AND CYBER SECURITY COUNCIL OF GERMANY ANNOUNCE INDUSTRY ALLIANCE FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL CYBER SECURITY

Posted on January 24, 2014 at 12:50 pm

  PRESS RELEASE January 24, 2014 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Washington, DC CONTACT: LARRY CLINTON 202-236-0001 or lclinton@isalliance.org)  INTERNET SECURITY ALLIANCE AND CYBER SECURITY COUNCIL OF GERMANY ANNOUNCE INDUSTRY ALLIANCE FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL CYBER SECURITY (WASHINGTON DC-MUNICH GERMANY) The Cyber Security Council of Germany (CSCG) and the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) today announced the signing of a mutual […]

Internet Security Alliance (ISA) Comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology on “Developing a Framework to Improve Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity”

Posted on April 8, 2013 at 1:42 pm

Current Risk Management Practices: NIST solicits information about how organizations assess risk; how cybersecurity factors into that risk assessment; the current usage of existing cybersecurity frameworks, standards, and guidelines; and other management practices related to cybersecurity. In addition, NIST is interested in understanding whether particular frameworks, standards, guidelines, and/or best practices are mandated by legal […]

BILL WOULD HAVE BUSINESSES FOOT COST OF CYBERWAR

Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:37 am

By Tom Gjelten Business executives and national security leaders are of one mind over the need to improve the security of the computers that control the U.S. power grid, the financial system, water treatment facilities and other elements of critical U.S. infrastructure. But they divide over the question of who bears responsibility for that effort. […]

Bill Would Have Businesses Foot Cost of Cyberwar

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By Tom Gjelten (National Public Radio (NPR) – Morning Edition) Business executives and national security leaders are of one mind over the need to improve the security of the computers that control the U.S. power grid, the financial system, water treatment facilities and other elements of critical U.S. infrastructure. But they divide over the question of […]

Mitigating PHI Danger In The Cloud

Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:29 am

By Rick Kam For all of its benefits, cloud computing poses very real dangers to covered entities responsible for safeguarding protected health information (PHI). The cloud model, which the IT industry has been embracing for its up-front cost savings and efficiencies for years now, is more recently being recognized by the healthcare realm for its potential […]

Cybersecurity Bill Passes, Obama Threatens Veto

Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:54 am

By David Goldman (CNN) NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The House of Representatives, as expected, approved a controversial cybersecurity bill late Thursday, staring down a veto threat. But the fight to protect the United States from a cataclysmic cyber attack is far from over. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which has been revised several times over the past week, […]

Group Calls For Public-Private Alliance To Protect Cyberspace

Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:53 am

By Andrew Feinberg (The Hill) As Congress turns its focus to cybersecurity matters, 26 major business and trade associations are seeking to remind lawmakers that cyberspace is “a bulwark of the global economy.” The group sent a letter Tuesday to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) urging action to protect “the […]

MILITARISATION OF CYBERSPACE: How The Global Power Struggle Moved Online

Posted on April 16, 2012 at 10:52 am

Rise of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure on both sides of Atlantic calls for creation of cyberweapons and new rules for use By Nick Hopkins (The Guardian) Jonathan Millican is a first-year university student from Harrogate in North Yorkshire. He says he doesn’t think of himself as a “stereotypical geek”, but having been crowned champion in […]