What is a ‘cyber moonshot,’ anyway?
Boosters say it would provide a unifying national goal on a key national security issue. Critics argue that using a space-travel analogy is all wrong. Like it or not, the “cyber moonshot” is becoming a thing. Earlier this month, a presidential advisory committee debated the concept, and on Wednesday, former CIA CTO Ira “Gus” Hunt used a keynote at CyberTalks to call for one. Such a project would create a single national goal for a much-needed cybersecurity game-changer. But framing the problem in terms of a huge singular goal pursued by a lone government agency isn’t necessarily helpful, argue critics. And even supporters don’t seem sure how the characteristics of the moonshot map to the much diverse cybersecurity problem set. “The cyber moonshot is a call to action,” said Hunt, now the federal cybersecurity practice lead for Accenture. It involved setting “a big, hairy audacious goal … shifting the balance of cyber-power [toward defenders […]
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