How operational collaboration can improve US cyber capability and response
An information analyst works in front of a screen showing a near real-time map tracking cyber threats at the FireEye office in Milpitas, California on December 29, 2014. Photo by Beck Diefenbach via Reuters.
In the course of the next decade, the United States must boost its capacity to defend its critical functions from adversaries who aim to cause disruption through cyberspace. Dealing with this cyber challenge to US national security will take operational collaboration that unites all levels of the government and the private sector.
Over the last year, I served as executive director of the New York Cyber Task Force (NYCTF). The group of cyber experts from academia, government, and the private sector explored the plausible national-security risks likely to impact the United States over the next five years and analyzed whether the United States is ready to face these challenges in cyberspace. The risks, as
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Why Russia s massive cyberattack is especially insidious Daniel Howley
President Donald Trump on Saturday downplayed the significance of a massive Russian cyberattack that continues to spread, touching everything from Cox Communications to an Arizona county to the U.S. agency that oversees the nation’s nuclear arsenal.
“The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control,” Trump tweeted.
However, experts say even more victims will likely emerge. Perhaps the most stunning part of the attack is that it was perpetrated using the very services designed to keep computer networks safe in the first place: system updates. The hackers did this by secretly implanting malicious code into software updates, then activating the code to launch the attacks weeks later to further cover their tracks.
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