By J. Nicholas Hoover
Excerpt:
“A group of 40 former and current government cybersecurity experts has convened to put together a series of cybersecurity recommendations for the next U.S. president, members of the think-tank-sponsored Cyber Commission for the 44th President said Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference in Washington, D.C. …
“Tom Kellerman, VP of security awareness for Core Security Technologies and a former cybersecurity exec at the World Bank, rattled off a number of statistics he said showed how urgent it is to create a cohesive cybersecurity policy for the country. He said the federal government has seen a 158% increase in successful cyberintrusions over the past year and that an FBI study found 108 countries were engaging in cyberespionage of some sort.”
Source: InformationWeek.com
