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The legislation eventually garnered widespread support on its way to becoming law, but much remains unresolved.
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is getting Kiersten Todt — a veteran of cyber-focused roles in the executive branch, on Capitol Hill and the private sector — as its chief of staff. Todt has been heading up the Cyber Readiness Institute, a non-profit focused on developing cybersecurity tools for small businesses. She now returns to the public sector at CISA, housed within the Department of Homeland Security. When she last worked for the federal government, it was as executive director of President Barack Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. Among the recommendations in its 2016 final report: creation of an agency just like CISA. Now, at CISA, Todt will focus on long-range objectives, allocating resources and the CISA workforce. “I look forward to shaping CISA’s long-term planning and working with industry, federal agencies, and state, local, tribal, and territorial government partners to chart the path forward for a more […]
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The White House summit Wednesday demonstrated positive momentum for both the Biden administration and private sector in terms of their approach to cybersecurity, but also laid bare what remains inadequate, cyber experts said. The high-profile meeting brought together CEOs from the education, energy, finance, insurance and tech sectors, featuring companies like Amazon, Bank of America and ConocoPhillips. Some pledged billions more in cyber investments, while others committed to providing training and smaller services in response to the administration’s “call to action.” While impressive, observers noted, those commitments will require considerable follow-up, from expansion to other sectors to policy changes that could emerge from closer-knit relationships between industry and government. Even as the nonprofit Global Cyber Alliance’s Megan Stifel commended the White House for holding the meeting and the broad commitments that the companies made, she said it illustrated the lengths to which the U.S. can improve national cybersecurity. “A couple […]
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Help is on the way for leaders at small and medium-sized businesses that have had to contend with cyberthreats that would be a challenge even for massive firms with multimillion-dollar security budgets. A program led by alumni of President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity commission was unveiled Monday, offering free tools and resources meant to help smaller companies better secure their corporate networks. The Cyber Readiness Institute was launched in July 2017 by the Center for Global Enterprise — an institution devoted to researching management practices, — to help small and medium-sized enterprises mitigate cyber risk. The Cyber Readiness Program, which launched Monday, includes support from private sector heavyweights like Mastercard, Microsoft, ExxonMobil and General Motors. The plan is for Fortune 500 companies to pass down cybersecurity know-how to companies with only a fraction of the resources, a method that ultimately aims to stop hackers before they can use one company as […]
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Some members and staff of President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity are seeking to advance the commission’s goals through a nonprofit that will provide cyber risk-management best practices for small and medium-sized businesses, according to an announcement Wednesday. The Cyber Readiness Institute was launched to help the private sector “better address cybersecurity risk management across value chains, with a particular emphasis on support for small and medium-sized enterprises,” according to the announcement. The four co-chairs of the institute are former IBM CEO and commission Deputy Chairman Sam Palmisano; commission member and MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who took over from commission member and Microsoft Vice President Peter Lee; and Penny Pritzker, who as Obama’s secretary of Commerce stood the commission up. It will be run by commission Executive Director Kiersten Todt. “The commission was the launching pad and the foundation stone” for the institute, she told CyberScoop. She said she’d […]
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When it comes to public and private collaboration, it’s time for government to step back and let industry have a turn at the wheel, cybersecurity experts and government officials say. In a panel discussion titled “Before Things Go Boom: Improving Government and Industry Cooperation Before it’s Too Late” at the New America think tank Friday in Washington, officials from both the private and public sector discussed the need for collaboration in light of the Trump administration’s recent executive order on cybersecurity. The executive order largely calls on federal agencies and departments to conduct a series of internal, comprehensive reviews of their digital defenses. By collecting a reasonable measure of existing protections, the White House hopes to better allocate funding. Kiersten Todt, executive director of the Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, said that thoughtful, industry-driven relationships and engagement prior to major cybersecurity events will lead to the trust necessarily for improved […]
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