Earlier today the Wall Street Journal’s Risk and Compliance Journal published an interview with me and Steve Chabinsky from Crowdstrike about cybersecurity. In the interview, Steve and I make the case that the current paradigm for protecting companies against cyberattacks isn’t working, and that fixing it involves focusing on aligning private sector and

Yesterday TARGET announced that the hackers who committed the breach that has potentially affected as many as 110 million customers gained access to its systems through one of its vendors. Although the details are still emerging as the forensic investigation continues, this early report is a reminder that your vendors can be a potential source

Matt Blaze, a well-known public cryptographer and NSA critic, offered what seemed like a modest concession in the relentless campaign against NSA intelligence gathering:

The NSA’s tools are very sharp indeed, even in the presence of communications networks that are well hardened against eavesdropping. How can this be good news? It isn’t if you’re

Officials in the EU often deride the lack of a national data protection authority in the US. It is absurd to suggest that the existence of a national DPA is itself a litmus test for a country’s commitment to privacy protection. Indeed, I would put the US system of constitutional checks and balances and sectoral

In my first post about NIST’s draft cybersecurity framework I explained its basic problem as a spur to better security: It doesn’t actually require companies to do much to improve their network security.

My second post argued that the framework’s privacy appendix, under the guise of protecting cybersecurity, actually creates a tough new privacy requirement

Following up on my earlier NIST post, it’s fair to ask why I think the NIST Cybersecurity Framework will be a regulatory disaster. After all, as I acknowledged in that post, NIST’s standards for cybersecurity are looking far less prescriptive than business feared. There’s not a “shall” or “should” to be found in NIST’s

Business and conservatives have been worried all year about the cybersecurity standards framework that NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) is drafting. An executive order issued early this year, after cybersecurity legislation stalled on the Hill, told NIST to assemble a set of standards to address cyber risks. Once they’re adopted, the order