Internet Security Alliance President Larry Clinton praised White...
Internet Security Alliance President Larry Clinton praised White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel Tuesday for saying the U.S. needs to take a more economics-based approach to cybersecurity, but added that there hasn’t been “adequate” follow-through on President Barack Obama’s 2013…
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cybersecurity executive order. Daniel had said during a Billington cybersecurity event Tuesday that improving cybersecurity is difficult in the U.S. because people still don’t fully understand the economics and psychology of cybersecurity. Daniel said the U.S. has improved its cybersecurity through its implementation of the executive order, particularly via the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework (WID Sept 17 p7). There’s “no evidence that using the Framework is cost effective and there has been no obvious work to develop the market incentives called for by the President,” Clinton said in a statement. “Without these critical pieces the simple existence of the Framework is unlikely to generate significantly improved cyber security.” A similar process to the one NIST used to develop the framework could be used to “address the economic issues surrounding use of the Framework, such as cost-effectiveness and incentives,” he said.