The Biden Administration's actions represent the pieces of an emerging federal cyber strategy that contains at least three key components: increased accountability for cybersecurity ..., better implementation of best practices and enhanced public-private integration.
CIOs and CISOs should already be aware of these practices and know the costs associated with implementing them. If incident response plans aren’t already available, they need to be developed and communicated to other key stakeholders as soon as possible. It’s particularly important that those stakeholders understand the critical steps to minimize risk, even if they come at the expense of some additional friction in business processes.
Further, recent cyber incidents like the SolarWinds breach and Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack prove that an essential best practice for leadership is testing incident response plans. This exercise is critical, and must include a role for the CIO, CISO and CEO. When a true incident is detected, leadership needs to be prepared to respond in a timely fashion.
Finally, while the administration expects private industry to take steps such as these, it is also clear that it sees a larger need for public-private integration. The sheer breadth of challenges in areas such as software development and evolving vulnerabilities requires such collaborative efforts to improve on existing best practices, leveraging NIST’s industry government forums.
Taken together, the United States is at the start of a shared cybersecurity journey that is likely to increase government regulation and oversight of industry. As is already happening with the defense industrial base, expect that if there isn’t strong voluntary participation, more will be mandated. I am the Senior Vice President, Policy for Public Sector at the Information Technology Industry Council . I lead ITI’s public sector work, which focuses on enablingI am the Senior Vice President, Policy for Public Sector at the Information Technology Industry Council . I lead ITI’s public sector work, which focuses on enabling governments to securely serve citizens by partnering with the IT industry to deliver innovative, effective, reliable and secure solutions at mission speeds.
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