The small government agency creating a policy to stop botnets
When White House officials were drafting the cybersecurity executive order that President Donald Trump signed last May, they faced a problem: Making the internet more secure against massive botnet attacks while taking coordinated action between a bewildering variety of stakeholders from a dozen different industries. Action was essential: The threat from huge automated attacks — like the one that brought the stopped internet traffic it its tracks in October 2016 — was growing exponentially as the “Internet of Things” connected billions of insecure devices to the larger global network. But forcing industry to act through regulation was off the table in an administration committed to cutting red tape. Instead, officials approached a small agency within the Commerce Department, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which was acquiring a reputation for addressing complex cybersecurity problems using a new model of policymaking. NTIA’s multi-stakeholder process “was generating a lot of interest” early […]
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