What the Venezuelan Operation Illustrates About U.S. Cybersecurity
2026: The Cyber Threat has Changed – Congress Needs to Change Too The very nature of cyber-attacks has changed dramatically, and the US Congress will need structural reform to keep up with the evolved threat to our national security. The US action against Venezuela this past weekend was a blended operation, apparently including […]
Cybersecurity Needs to be Treated as a National Defense Issue
WE ARE FIGHTING THE LAST WAR – AND LOSING For more than a decade, the United States has misdiagnosed the nature of the cyber threat. We treated cybersecurity as if it were a primarily consumer protection matter, and in the early days, perhaps it was. Our strategy was mostly geared to directing private companies to […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: FINANCIAL SERVICES
Cyber Defense in the Financial Sector: Securing the Infrastructure Behind America’s Economic Power Every U.S. military operation depends on a stable and secure financial infrastructure. Payroll for 2.1 million service members moves through commercial banks. Defense contractors rely on credit markets to fund production. Treasury’s sanctions—the nation’s most effective non-kinetic weapon—require a functioning financial […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: AGRICULTURE
Food is on the Front Line of Nation-State Cyber Attacks We Are Already Under Attack Agriculture is one of the nation’s most essential and least protected infrastructures. Rapid digitization of precision farming, automated processing, and just-in-time logistics has created an attack surface that has expanded far more quickly than cybersecurity investment. USDA officials […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: THE ELECTRIC GRID
Chinese Hackers Have Infiltrated Our Grid American cybersecurity faces a significant and immediate challenge. Chinese state-sponsored hackers have embedded themselves in our critical electric utility infrastructure—positioning themselves to potentially disrupt both our economy and our operational national defense capability. In November, Politico quoted the Chief Information Security Officer of a major critical infrastructure company, stating, […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT THREE: WATER
The Navy can’t protect us from these attacks on the water. Chinese military strategists have long emphasized that the most effective way to weaken an adversary is to disrupt its critical infrastructure without firing a shot. The discovery that Volt Typhoon, a Chinese military cyber group, has successfully attacked and compromised access to American water […]
ISA NATIONAL DEFENSE CYBER THREAT REPORT: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
“We’re really dealing with a highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor that will do anything and everything at any price to get a foothold into our critical infrastructure.” — Nasrin Rezai, Chief Information Security Officer for Verizon¹. The New Definition of National Defense For generations, “national defense” has meant tanks, jets, and missiles. However, in the […]
HEALTH CARE INSITUTIONS NEED TO ENHANCE GOVERNANCE TO FACE AI CRISIS
Healthcare faces an AI-fueled cybersecurity crisis. Attackers are increasingly using AI to enhance methods. Cybercrime has skyrocketed in recent years, leading to billions of dollars in losses for American’s. As global law enforcement agencies and the cyber community race to combat scam operations, cybercriminals’ methods are becoming increasingly sophisticated powered by AI. At the same […]
ISA President Clinton leading IT Sector Senate briefing on the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA)
CAIRNCROSS TAKES FIRST STEPS ON PATHWAY TO AMERICAN CYBERSECURITY
In his first extended policy statement the new National Cybersecurity Director Sean Cairncross described the state of US cybersecurity economic terms saying we need to thwart our adversaries in cyberspace… shift the burden of risk in cyberspace from Americans to them…vowing that the United States would impose costs” for their behavior” Critically, Mr. Cairncross went […]
