IT IS TIME FOR A NATIONAL CYBER SERVICES ACADEMY
Our service academies – West Point, Annapolis the Airforce and Merchant Marine Academies are the ultimate public private partnership. Government offers private citizens high quality education at no cost, and in return the graduates are obliged to provide three years of service to the government, and many stay on well-past that obligation. The system has […]
INGLIS PROPOSES CYBER SOCIAL CONTRACT: GREAT IDEA! NOW LET’S TALK TERMS
By Larry Clinton In the latest edition of Foreign Affairs, the US Director for Cybersecurity, Chris Inglis and Harry Krejsa, propose that the government and industry forge a new paradigm – a cybersecurity social contract. Naturally, the Internet Security Alliance applauds this move toward a new paradigm. We do so for two reasons, first and […]
Regulation of Cybersecurity Has Been Tried and It Doesn’t Work
By Larry Clinton The focus of the current series of posts is to suggest the need for new directions in cybersecurity policy. Put succinctly, it’s not just that we need to do cybersecurity better – it’s that we need to do cybersecurity differently. Why? Because we are getting killed out there. Cybercriminals generate roughly $2 trillion […]
Playoffs Time: What Can Cyber Policymakers Learn from the NFL?
This blog series began by asserting that in the new year, given the obvious ineffectiveness of our current cyber policies it’s time for policymakers to begin focusing on issues that might really matter in terms of creating a sustainably secure system. We then moved forward to identify two major areas where government could really make a […]
New Year’s Cyber Resolution: Modernize Cyber Law Enforcement
By Larry Clinton In this series of posts, we have been arguing that now is a time to rethink our efforts to create a sustainably secure cyber ecosystem. The core notion of this rethinking would be to, finally, begin focusing more on programmatic changes that will truly impact the security of cyberspace, as opposed to the […]
New Year’s Cyber Policy Resolution #1: Get Serious About Workforce Development
By Larry Clinton Last week, we discussed that we needed to make a New Year’s resolution to start talking about things that really matter for cybersecurity. One area that really matters if we’re serious about improving our cybersecurity is addressing the current workforce shortage. We can never create an adequately secure our cyber systems unless […]
A NEW YEAR’S CYBER RESOLUTION: LET’S START TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER
By Larry Clinton, President and CEO, Internet Security Alliance I have to say I’m disappointed the language requiring more stringent timelines for reporting cyber events to the government didn’t make it into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). I’m not disappointed because I have strong feelings one way or another about that provision – to […]
The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Created Novel Cybersecurity Challenges — But It May Also Give Us a Solution to the Cybersecurity Workforce Problem
By Josh Higgins, Senior Director of Policy and Communications The COVID-19 pandemic has created many new challenges for companies — such as managing a remote workforce, adopting new suppliers and cloud services, and a vastly expanded cyber-threat landscape — as the world works to maintain productivity through primarily virtual means. However, despite all these new […]
Coronavirus Creates New Insider Cyber Threat and How to Treat It
Instantaneous, Unplanned, Digital Transformation Creates Massive Cyber Risk By Larry Clinton Insiders are generally identified as the locus of about half of successful cyber-attacks. The 2020 edition of the Cyber-Risk Oversight Handbook published by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) last month (available free of charge here). identifies the […]
ISA Board of Directors Offers Cybersecurity Best Practices for COVID-19 Crisis
The outbreak of coronavirus globally has created a new reality vastly increasing how much business is done online: While this new virtual reality is essential to sustaining business during the pandemic, it is critical that corporate boards are also aware of the increased cybersecurity threat from this intensified, and often unplanned, utilization of technology. As […]
