America is still trying to win the last cyber war
By Christopher Porter, opinion contributor — 03/31/19 12:30 PM EDT
During a DHS-run conference in New York City in July of last year, Vice President Mike Pence promised that the Trump Administration would give the American people “the strongest possible defense†in cyberspace to address a “cyber crisis†that was “inherited†from the previous administration.
Since that announcement, the White House has rolled out a new National Cyber Strategy and the Pentagon has implemented a complementary Defense Cyber Strategy. Between the two documents and other official public announcements from the military and intelligence community, three key themes emerge: A newfound bias toward action in cyberspace to counter adversaries’ cyber operations, an emphasis on threats to the U.S. economy as the preeminent national security threat caused by those cyber operations, and a tougher approach to securing the supply chain on which the U.S. military and civilian critical infrastructure rely. Even though it is still early days, from where I sit in the private sector, the change in strategy mostly makes good sense for the American people but with a few key deficiencies left to be addressed.
https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/436613-america-is-still-trying-to-win-the-last-cyber-war
