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In emergencies, federal agencies can avoid cumbersome rulemaking procedures. Uses of the “good cause” exception following 9/11 and the outbreak of the coronavirus offer insights relevant to the current cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure.
Five Eyes Alliance cybersecurity advisory over Russian state-sponsored and criminal cyber threats to critical infrastructure.
The new appropriations bill is sound overall, but it addresses only half of the federal government’s cybersecurity mandate.
The new reporting mandate is designed to encourage compliance with the law and increase the quantity and quality of cyber incident reporting
Many federal agencies have existing authority that could be leveraged to improve the cybersecurity of private actors under their jurisdiction.
Over the past two years, Russian state-sponsored cyber actors have been targeting U.S. cleared defense contractors.
Attackers in cyberspace have had the systemwide advantage for decades. Reversing this requires both a more nuanced understanding of the offense-defense balance and innovations with leverage that works at scale across the internet.
The proposed reporting mandates are an insufficient solution to the right problem.
Despite the U.S. government spending more than $16 billion, new technologies and programs may be needed.
On July 16, the Department of Justice unsealed a grand jury indictment