Internet Security Alliance Criticizes 'Counterproductive' Cybersecurity Regulations
The Internet Security Alliance released a fact sheet the group says illustrates that the “tremendous growth in cybersecurity rules and regulations is diverting scarce security resources and actually undermining our nation’s cyber defenses.” Some corporate chief information security officers' reported…
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spending almost 40 percent of their time meeting government-mandated compliance measures and audits, and some firms reported spending up to 30 percent of their cybersecurity budget on compliance, ISA said in the fact sheet. “We now have cyber mandates springing up like weeds as virtually every governmental entity, federal state and local, fight to be the ‘cyber guy,'” said ISA President Larry Clinton in a statement Monday. “The result is an uncoordinated, inconsistent and often counterproductive set of requirements that actually hurts, not [helps], increased security.” ISA and other groups aren't “saying we ought not to have cyber controls or assessments,” Clinton said. “But, we need to have a rational and well-thought out system or we will waste vital resources and undermine our security.”