ISA takes Lead Role in Construction of NIST Framework
In response to the February 2013 executive order released by President Obama, titled “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity”, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has undertaken the vital task of developing a new set of guidelines and standards to promote better cyber security practices in both the public and private sector. Known as the […]
Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order 13636
In February 2013, President Obama issued Executive Order 13636: Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, which formalized the Administration’s adoption of principals proposed by the Internet Security Alliance. The Executive Order departed from the regulatory model that the Administration previously embraced that would have granted the Department of Homeland Security extensive authority to mandate cyber security standards […]
NACD Asks ISA For Best Practices Guide
<h3>NACD asks ISA to create best practices guide for corporate board of directors</h3> The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) asked ISA to put together a guide of best practices for corporate directors. With input from the ISA Board of Directors, and in close collaboration with AIG, ISA was tasked to identify best practices in […]
ISA Criteria For Assessing The Cybersecurity Exec Order
Click Here for Full Document EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – ASSESSING PRESIDENT OBAMA’S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON CYBER SECURITY Upon realizing that comprehensive cyber security legislation to address the nation’s growing cyber security problem was unlikely to pass the Congress, President Obama issued an Executive Order on the subject in February 2013. The Order marked a watershed moment […]
Media Asks ISA To Comment On WH Cyber Order
ISA on CNBC On February 13, 2013, following the release of the Obama Administration’s Executive Order, CNBC’s “Power Lunch” asked ISA President Larry Clinton to appear on the show to discuss how the Executive Order will impact the private sector and solicit ISA’s view on its implications. To watch the segment, please proceed to ISA […]
“Cyber Czar” Praises ISA on Health Care Program
In an unusual move, the White House’s cyber security lead, the so called “Cyber Czar,” Howard Schmidt joined the ISA, ANSI, and the Santa Fe Group at the National Press Club for the launch of the ISA’s most recent publication in its Financial Risk Management Program: “The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information – […]
ISA Testimony Leads To Bipartisan Cyber Incentives Effort
ISA’s long-standing efforts to create an economically viable and sustainable approach to cybersecurity reached a milestone following an unusually collaborative and non-partisan hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology on February 8, 2012. After the hearing, Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA) formed a bipartisan Task […]
ISA Leads Effort W/DHS To “Reboot” Ind-Govt Partership
Since the crafting of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), the ISA has taken a lead role in seeking a viable partnership between government and industry to address the unique problems in defending integrated cyber systems against increasingly sophisticated attacks. ISA outlined a re-drafted model in its Cyber Security “Social Contract” (2008) and “Social Contract […]
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, […]
