The Trump administration is looking for its ‘cyber moonshot’
Tech advisors to the Trump administration are looking for a cybersecurity “moonshot” — a single national target that will be a game-changer in online security. But a meeting of a blue-ribbon telecommunications panel this week suggested that defining such a goal is still some way off. “This is the beginning of a conversation,” Scott Charney, vice chairman of the president’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee told CyberScoop during a break in the proceedings at a public meeting Wednesday. “This current approach [to cybersecurity] isn’t working,” added Charney, a former Justice Department cyber prosecutor and current Microsoft VP. “The breaches keep on happening.” NSTAC met in the shadow of the recent Equifax breach — in which hackers were able to steal Social Security numbers for over 145 million Americans, by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in their web application software. The committee was unable to achieve a quorum and so did not conduct any formal business. Charles […]
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