Cyber CEOs urge NIST Framework be made a part of NAFTA talks
Ten major cybersecurity companies have written to the U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lightheizer to urge that alignment of cybersecurity standards — and the use of risk management tools like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework — should become part of the re-negotiation of the North America Free Trade Agreement that started this week. “The government … needs to step up to the plate” in international affairs where cybersecurity is concerned, Amit Yoran, CEO of Tenable, and one of the letter’s signatories, told CyberScoop. The other companies signing on are Rapid7, Arbor Networks, Bugcrowd, CA Technologies, Cybereason, Forescout, McAfee, Mimecast and Symantec. “Trade issues related directly to the U.S. cybersecurity industry are absent” from the lengthy list of U.S. negotiating objectives in the NAFTA rewrite released by LightHeizer’s office, the letter complains, while welcoming the inclusion of objectives related to digital trade more generally. That omission is especially damaging, the letter suggests, because “Numerous countries are currently considering or […]
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