Speaker: Philip R. Reitinger
Cybersecurity has evolved from an intimate circle of simple web hackers into one of our nations' most important and formidable national security issues. As we increasingly build network capabilities into everything we do, we are also increasing our exposure to adversaries wanting to do significant harm to our national and shared global infrastructure. This means that sharing information and collaboration among nations plays a crucial role in developing effective and coordinated responses to incidences. But as much as we focus in our specific mission spaces, we also recognize that cybersecurity isn't just a government problem; it's also a business concern. Therefore, we need to leverage cyber and information technology expertise across the cybersecurity spectrum, to include industry, academia, other government agencies, as well as national Cyber Emergency Response Teams, in order to create shared situational awareness, and thus a common operational picture. Threats to cybersecurity do not discriminate between borders, and nor should our unified response. It's only through partnership and collaboration that can begin to gain the upper hand in the cybersecurity fight.