Collaborate Disseminate
Biden’s forthcoming national cybersecurity is expected to introduce regulations for utilities that could increase consumers’ energy bills.
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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
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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While CISA says the catalog is catching on, some think it needs improvement.
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They cited progress with structures like the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative.
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The legislation eventually garnered widespread support on its way to becoming law, but much remains unresolved.
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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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The Biden administration announced Thursday it is extending a voluntary cybersecurity initiative for essential control systems in the electricity sector and pipelines to facilities that supply water across the U.S. Under the initiative, the administration is pushing participating water sector facilities to adopt detection technologies that would monitor cyber threats to industrial control systems (ICS), which automate processes such as the treatment, storage and distribution of water. It’s also urging them to more rapidly share threat data with the U.S. government. The 100-day plan will first aim to bring in larger facilities. The water sector, which includes what a senior administration official estimated at over 150,000 facilities that provide water to approximately 300 million Americans, has long been considered one of the most vulnerable in the U.S. to cyberattacks. A hack last February on a facility in Florida temporarily altered the plant’s sodium hydroxide setting to a level harmful to […]
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We live in a world where we are united in fear against digital enemies who threaten our very subsistence: our food and water supply, the electric grid, even the delivery of essential healthcare. Cyberattacks have disrupted commercial organizations, exposed our data and put our national security at risk. And although we can clearly see the escalation of this very clear and present threat, we still struggle to overcome the hurdles that stand between our public and private organizations and true collaborative efforts to strengthen our nation’s cybersecurity and resilience. There are many reasons for this. Private companies have historically been reticent to share information with government stakeholders, and vice versa. We have also lacked clear processes to share data at scale or to allow government assistance in our efforts to protect privately-owned infrastructure. This isn’t the fault of any past administrations, and we have made progress in each of these […]
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An in-depth analysis of a range of popular Android mobile phones has revealed significant data collection and sharing, including with third parties, with no opt-out available to users. Prof. Doug Leith at Trinity College Dublin along with Dr Paul Patra… Continue reading Android data sharing remains significant, no opt-out available to users