Posted on October 5, 2023 at 5:08 am
Introduction by Larry Clinton As we explained in previous blogs (LINK), cybercrime is at an all-time high – and there are no signs that it is slowing down. Economic losses from cybercrime are estimated to be as much as $2 trillion annually—and increasing to as much as $10.5 trillion by 2025 – 10 trillion is […]
Posted on May 11, 2023 at 5:34 pm
An analysis of the proposal to create a national, virtual, cybersecurity academy shows that creating the academy would not only solve the federal government’s cybersecurity workforce problem in less than 4 years but would create savings that allows the program to pay for itself – and even contribute to reducing the federal budget deficit. The […]
Posted on April 9, 2023 at 9:57 pm
Dear Congressional Members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees: We are writing to urge the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bill to include $200 million for the Department of Defense Cyber and Digital Service Academy (the Academy) that was authorized in the FY 2023 National Defense Authorization […]
Posted on March 31, 2023 at 9:14 am
A Review of Fixing American Cybersecurity, Edited by Larry Clinton and Foreword by Kiersten Todt This entry was posted in Book ReviewCybersecurity on March 30, 2023 by Steven Bowcut In an era of growing cyber threats and increasing data breaches, the need for robust cybersecurity measures has never been greater. Against this backdrop, Larry Clinton’s new book, “Fixing American Cybersecurity: Creating […]
Posted on March 30, 2023 at 9:29 am
Writing in the February edition of Foreign Affairs CISA Director Jen Easterly called for “a new model” for cybersecurity. A month later President Biden released a new national strategy for cybersecurity which he said would “realign incentives in favor of long-term investment. When releasing the new strategy acting WH Director for Cybersecurity Kemba Waldon said, […]
Posted on March 27, 2023 at 11:28 am
The Biden Administration’s new National Cybersecurity Strategy is an important first step toward improving our nation’s cybersecurity. This strategy, unlike the numerous others that have been unveiled over the past 20 years, adopts ISA’s core argument that we cannot create a sustainably secure cyber system until we rebalance the incentives for cyber-attacks. ISA is not […]
Posted on March 15, 2023 at 9:17 pm
The traditional regulatory model – when applied to cybersecurity – is actually anti-security. For all the discussion around the Biden Administration’s new cyber strategy generating new regulations, this one simple fact remains. There is no evidence the cyber regs are working. The real question is not so much how much new regulations there ought to […]
Posted on March 13, 2023 at 12:06 pm
By Charlie Mitchell / March 13, 2023 Federal agencies should be required to clarify that proposed cybersecurity rules are not “duplicative or in conflict with existing regulations,” according to a key industry player on cyber, an idea embraced by former White House cyber coordinator Michael Daniel as a way to deliver on regulatory streamlining under President […]
Posted on March 6, 2023 at 10:21 am
The new National Cybersecurity Strategy released last week calls for intensified federal regulation on IT providers, while presumably shifting regulatory focus away from technology users (we will see what the regulatory agencies and the SEC has to say about that last part). The strategy asserts “regulation can level the playing field enabling healthy competition without […]
Posted on March 3, 2023 at 10:00 am
There are probably various government agencies where regulators have already sharpened their virtual pencils preparing to write up some new regulations go along with the new National cybersecurity strategy released yesterday. Please put down your pens. That is not where implementation of the new strategy needs to begin. While much of the conversation about the […]