ISA Briefs FDIC On ISA’s Financial Cyber Risk Program
Starting in 2006, the ISA began its program on the Financial Management of Cyber Risk, which resulted in the first of its publications on this subject: “The Financial Impact of Cyber Risk – 50 Questions Every CFO Should Ask.” ISA’s and follow-up publication, “The Financial Management of Cyber Risk – An Implementation Framework for CFOs,” […]
ISA and Michael Chertoff Keynote World Nuclear Security Event
The World Institute of Nuclear Security (WINS) contacted the ISA in late 2011 for assistance in developing an incentive-based model for nuclear facility security that is global in scale. In conjunction with this request, ISA President Clinton, along with DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, was asked to keynote the WINS international nuclear security conference in Vienna, […]
ISA Briefs Congress On Information Sharing
Information sharing is one of the most important tools in implementing a sustainable system of cybersecurity. However, the traditional information sharing models have been proven generally to be of limited effectiveness in that many organizations cannot devote the resources to participate in an Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) and because many of the traditionally […]
COMMERCE SECRETARY: ISA Mobile Security Work Top Achievement
A year after President Obama issued his “Cyberspace Policy Review,” he called a high-level meeting of public and private sector representatives, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, and National Cyber Security Coordinator (“Cyber Czar”) Howard Schmidt at the White House to discuss progress and achievements in cyber security. With President Obama and ISA […]
ISA Briefs NATO Cyber Centre For Excellence
While many of ISA’s member companies are U.S.-based, virtually all of them are multi-national and operate internationally. Because of this and the nature of the problem, itself, ISA has always taken an international approach to cybersecurity (2 of the past 5 ISA Board Chairs have hailed from European headquartered organizations). Shortly after ISA reiterated and […]
ISA Releases Cyber Supply Chain Roadmap
The ISA launched its first supply chain program in 2005, in conjunction with ISA Founding Partner Carnegie Mellon University. Since then, ISA has released a series of reports on managing the IT supply chain for security purposes with ever greater specificity. In 2007, ISA released its report with Carnegie Mellon on the nature of […]
House GOP Task Force Report On Cybersecurity Adopts ISA Recommend
In the 112th Congress, a high-level task force convened by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) endorsed the approach laid out by ISA in the Cyber Security Social Contract. When the House GOP Task Force on Cyber Security convened, ISA was the first witness called to provide recommendations.The House Republican Task Force Report on Cyber Security, […]
ISA Hosts White House Event on Cybersecurity And Economy
On June 6, 2012, the Internet Security Alliance hosted an invitation-only event at the White House on economic issues related to cyber security. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was the featured speaker, providing opening comments and engaged the invited guests in an open and robust question and answer session. Mark Weatherford, the DHS Deputy Under Secretary […]
Bill Would Have Businesses Foot Cost Of Cyberwar
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
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. […]
