Strengthening critical infrastructure cybersecurity is a balancing act

In this Help Net Security interview, Aaron Crow, Senior Director at MorganFranklin Consulting, discusses critical infrastructure cybersecurity strategies, barriers to threat information sharing, and innovative technologies enhancing resilience against … Continue reading Strengthening critical infrastructure cybersecurity is a balancing act

Collaboration between CISA, Cyber Command thwarted dangerous cyberattacks, officials said

During the 2023 RSA Conference, top officials provided rare insight into sharing information to protect U.S. networks from malicious hackers.

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The cost of expected cybersecurity mandates: bigger energy bills for consumers

Biden’s forthcoming national cybersecurity is expected to introduce regulations for utilities that could increase consumers’ energy bills.

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Steps CISA should take in 2023

Recently, I was asked to imagine that I had been granted an hour with top officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – what advice would I offer to help it have an even bigger impact in 2023 and beyond? It was only i… Continue reading Steps CISA should take in 2023

Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Disrupting Cybercrime Networks Requires Private-Public Cooperation and Information Sharing

No one combatting cybercrime knows everything, but everyone in the battle has some intelligence to contribute to the larger knowledge base.

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How CISA’s list of “must-patch” vulnerabilities has expanded in both size, and in who’s using it

While CISA says the catalog is catching on, some think it needs improvement.

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Top cyber feds working toward fresh models of an old mantra: cyber collaboration

They cited progress with structures like the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative.

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The long, bumpy road to cyber incident reporting legislation — and the one still ahead

The legislation eventually garnered widespread support on its way to becoming law, but much remains unresolved.

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National Cyber Director Chris Inglis calls for ‘new social contract’ to redistribute risk

Cyberspace needs a “new social contract” where “isolated individuals, small businesses and local governments” no longer shoulder “absurd levels of risk,” says a top U.S. cyber official. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, writing in Foreign Affairs over the weekend with a senior adviser, said that the tech sector should make deeper investments in hardware and software security and the U.S. government should take a greater role in fostering digital defenses. “Those more capable of carrying the load — such as governments and large firms — must take on some of the burden, and collective, collaborative defense needs to replace atomized and divided efforts,” write Inglis and Harry Krejsa, the acting assistant national cyber director for strategy and research. “Until then, the problem will always look like someone else’s to solve.” Their overarching message about the need to improve private-public cooperation has been a refrain of cyber experts for decades. The […]

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