PART III THE FASTEST (AND CHEAPEST) WAY TO IMPROVE CYBERSECURITY: REFORM REGULATION
A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO GET GOVERNMENT RIGHT ON CYBERSECURITY PART III THE FASTEST (AND CHEAPEST) WAY TO IMPROVE CYBERSECUITY: REFORM REGULATION This Congress could enact two, comparatively simple, administrative changes that would generate the biggest improvement in US cybersecurity in legislative history, and both cost virtually nothing. This week the House Homeland […]
PART II “The Fantasy of the Public Private Partnership & How Reauthorization of CISA Can Address It”
Attached is Part II of ISA’s series “A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity for Government to Get Cybersecurity Right” A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO GET GOVERNMENT RIGHT ON CYBERSECURITY PART II THE MISSED OPPORTUNITY: THE FANTASY OF THE PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP In last week’s post we summarized the ongoing failure of US […]
INTEREST GROWING IN ISA PROPOSAL TO ELIMINATE CYBER REGULATORY REDUNDANCIES
Earlier this week ISA posted the attached blog arguing that significant reforms in cybersecurity policy are required to better protect our nation, including eliminating the significant redundancy in cyber regulations which is wasting vast amounts of limited cyber resources. We further argued that on this one specific topic the overall government reform of the new […]
INTERNET SECURITY ALLIANCE STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR THE PIVOTT ACT
The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) strongly supports Chairman Mark Green’s Cyber PIVOTT Act which is headed to markup tomorrow. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Gary Peters (D-MI) introduced the bipartisan companion legislation in the Senate. The bill received bipartisan support in the House when it advanced out of Committee in the 118th Congress. If enacted, this bill […]
DISRUPTION IN DC IS A GOOD THING FOR CYBER
PART ONE: A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY I know I have cyber friends who will read that headline and say—”what are you talking about? Do you know what’s happening to CISA?” Yes, and we will get to that, but consider this: essentially, we have been doing the same things to address cyber threats for […]
ISA CALLS FOR INCREASED PARTNERSHIPS ON CYBERSECURITY IN LATIN AMERICAN
Highlighting recent estimates that cyber-crime costs could rise to nearly 23 trillion dollars world-wide by 2027, ISA President called for an intensified public private partnership at the Aliv Central American Cybersecurity Summit in Nassau Bahamas this week. The Aliv Summit is one of the most widely attended cyber meetings in the region and Clinton used […]
KEY BIPARTISAN SENATORS BACK ISA INSPIRED PIVOTT ACT ON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Today Senator Mike Rounds, (R-ND) Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on cybersecurity and Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Senate Homeland Security ranking member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) are introducing the Senate version of the Cyber PIVOTT Act. This is the companion bill to the Act introduced in the House by Homeland Security Chair […]
WE SPEND $70 BILLION ON CYBERSECURITY WITH NO WAY TO ASSESS ITS EFFECTIVENESS
It’s difficult to get precise numbers on our non-defense cybersecurity spend (which is a problem in itself) but most estimates place the number between $65-70 billion annually. It’s debatable that even this number is adequate. China’s Digital Silk Road strategy is officially funded at $1.4 trillion over 5 years, or roughly 6 times the USA’s […]
THOUGHTS ON SECURITY BY DESIGN/DEFAULT FOR WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Larry Clinton’s opening statement Last week I was honored to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual cybersecurity conference and lead a session on the demystification of the economics of secured by demand/default (watch the introduction above). I want to thank, and congratulate, the Forum creating this session. This topic lies at the very essence of […]
WHITE HOUSE SHOULD LOOK TO BOARD’S GUIDENCE ON AI AND CYBERSECURITY – PART 2
The founder of the organization I am honored to lead was Dave McCurdy, the former Chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Based on his long career in government Dave liked to say, “government does two things well, nothing and over-react.” We are clearly, and rightfully, out of the” do-nothing” phase of government’s involvement in AI. […]
