The nature of cyberthreats aimed at both the U.S. government and private American companies calls for a dramatic shift in how the larger cybersecurity community shares information about hackers and collectively responds to attacks, said Neal Ziring, technical director for the NSA’s Capabilities Directorate. While raising the awareness of what different hackers and foreign intelligence agencies are doing in cyberspace remains essential, Ziring said, it’s simply not enough based on the level of danger and activities occurring today. The next and necessary step is the development of a shared, public-private framework in the U.S. that can roll out software patches and other system updates at “machine speed” to individual researchers, industry and the government as soon as new intelligence become available, according to Ziring and Thomas Donahue, director of research at the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. They both spoke Thursday at a cybersecurity conference in D.C. “The big thing for […]
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