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In the face of malware’s growth in both category and character, government experts joined private sector leaders Thursday to formulate better ways to tackle cybersecurity challenges. During McAfee’s 2017 Security Through Innovation Summit, both sides of the public and private sector relationship talked about changes needed at every aspect of the security ecosystem, from better information sharing to more automation to a total revamp of the government acquisition process. “We as an industry have been tackling this cybersecurity problem in the fundamentally wrong way,” said Brian Dye, McAfee’s executive vice president of products, at the event hosted by CyberScoop and FedScoop. Automation was a continuing theme Thursday, promoted not only as a way to address cybersecurity workforce shortages but also improve the consistency and reliability of network defenses. A panel of government speakers drew a distinction between tasks that could be made “automatic” — where no input was required — and […]
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Technologies like cloud computing are changing the way federal agencies think about cybersecurity, with more emphasis on network resilience over perimeter security and an overriding need for automation, officials said Thursday. Cybersecurity today “comes down to automating your response. If you cannot automate your response [to an attack], you are hosed, you simply are hosed,” Paul Pitelli, head of information assurance at the NSA, told a panel at the 2017 McAfee Security Through Innovation Summit, produced by CyberScoop. Automation was a continuing theme at the event, discussed as a way to address cybersecurity workforce shortages and also improve the consistency and reliability of network defenses. Speakers drew a distinction between tasks that could be made “automatic” — where no input was required — and those that might be mundane but require some input or judgment, which could be automated with sufficiently sophisticated software. “Have your humans work on human tasks and your computers […]
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