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They cited progress with structures like the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative.
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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 U.S. government and private sector need to be planning now for a cascading cyberattack on critical infrastructure by mapping out emergency authorities and supply-chain contingencies – lest they be caught off-guard during the real thing, a new study says. If the public and private sector don’t begin developing specific procedures for mitigating such an attack now, “the United States will find itself flat-footed during a major cyber event,” says a report published Tuesday by the think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies and consultancy The Chertoff Group. The report is the output of a tabletop exercise that FDD held in October, the details of which were first reported by CyberScoop. That exercise considered a hypothetical, debilitating cyberattack on multiple sectors of the U.S. economy. Former national security and law enforcement officials, along with executives from the banking, electricity, and retail sectors, discussed how the U.S. government and industry might respond […]
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The year 2018 is stacking up to be the year of cybercrime prosecution, with the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) flexing its muscle and truly demonstrating the “long arm of the law.” The number of indictments, extraditions, trials and convictions give… Continue reading Public-Private Partnership Takes Down Global Cybercriminals
The training and job-matching effort is a public-private partnership to address a growing workforce gap. Continue reading Program Looks to Tap Military Vets for Cyber-Jobs