WOULD YOU BUILD ROADS YOU KNEW WERE UNSAFE?
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.
Mayorkas Vision: 2020 – Implementation, pretty retro
New Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlined his vision for cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security in a speech yesterday at Hampton College.
Info Sharing: We Need to Learn from Our Successes
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 […]
Lawmakers moving on cyber incident-reporting bills; industry hopes to nudge discussion away from regulatory mandates
Members of Congress are moving toward a legislative push for mandatory cyber-incident reporting by critical infrastructure operators, while industry groups are beginning to shape their arguments against establishing such a regulatory requirement in response to the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange hacks. A source close to the House Homeland Security Committee told Inside Cybersecurity: “We’re in the […]
Internet Security Alliance, partners release consensus principles for boardroom cyber risk management
A trio of groups including the Internet Security Alliance has released a report offering “a cohesive, global, cross-border approach to cyber-risk governance” for corporate boards, with six principles that pull together consensus views developed by security and industry leaders in recent years. “Principles for Board Governance of Cyber Risk” was released today by ISA, the […]
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ISA & NACD RELEASE GLOBAL GUIDENCE ON CYBER
Although most of the ISA’s “Rethink Cybersecurity campaign” is targeted toward public policy, a rethinking at the corporate level is also required. This morning at the World Economic Forum’s headquarters in Geneve the three entities, ISA the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Forum jointly released global guidance for corporate boards of directors is […]
Federal officials stress unprecedented levels of coordination as lawmakers continue probe of SolarWinds
Senators on the Homeland Security Committee took their turn probing the federal response to the SolarWinds hack at a hearing that featured CISA, OMB and FBI officials citing extensive interagency cooperation, while lawmakers pressed on the need for more high-level direction and for upgrading the government’s overall approach to cyber defense. “After the SolarWinds hack […]
CISA TO CONGRESS: SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!
“We need to rethink our approach to managing cybersecurity,” said Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Acting Director Brandon Wales at a House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing last week last week.
The Cyber Policy Path Forward
Guest Blog: Robert Mayer USTelecom’s Senior Vice President of Cybersecurity & Innovation There can be no clearer evidence of the need for industry and government to work together on cybersecurity than the recent SolarWinds attack on our nation’s digital infrastructure. In the analog realm, an attack of this type would be a call to arms […]
A NEW ROLE FOR MILITARY IN NATION STATE CYBER ATTACKS
As Commander-In-Chief, the President is the ultimate strategic player in defending the country. Merriam-Webster defines warfare as military operations between enemies, also:an activity undertaken by a political unit (such as a nation) to weaken or destroy another
