We open this episode by exploring the primary Nationwide Cybersecurity Technique, issued nearly precisely a yr in the past. Because the solely good technique to decide a technique is by its implementation, we pull in Kemba Walden, who was first the principal Deputy after which the Appearing Cyber Director because the technique got here collectively. She is usually optimistic, and urges us to attend for the soon-to-be-released posture report from her outdated workplace. Kemba, in the meantime, has joined the Paladin International Institute, designed to additional Kemba’s (and Paladin’s) curiosity in aligning personal funding and public safety.
Turning from the strategic to the tactical, Sultan Meghji and I dig into the ransomware assault on Change Healthcare, and the heavy monetary and human prices it imposed. I am struck by the truth that probably the most notoriously disruptive assaults in current historical past have focused the billing and fee programs of corporations like Change Healthcare and Colonial Pipeline.
We additionally cowl the typically neglected response of America’s adversaries to U.S. cyber methods. I notice that decoupling goes each methods, as China is slowly however absolutely extirpating U.S. tech from its infrastructure, and Chinese language customers have joined the marketing campaign, at nice value to Apple. In the meantime, Russian on-line disinformation, laughably overrated in 2016, is reported to be simpler in 2024, at the least in international locations with giant Russian minorities.
The most recent infrastructure provide chain concern is in U.S. ports, the place Chinese language-made cranes have achieved deep market penetration, regardless of suspicious elements. Kemba, a veteran of port safety debates, chronicles the historical past of the problem and of the U.S. response.
Brandon Pugh and Sultan remind us that even huge corporations with useful secrets and techniques may be victimized by staff stealing mental property.
Brandon additionally analyzes the President’s state of the union references to safety of youngsters on line, seen by some as a lift to the Youngsters On-line Security Act.
We dive deep into suggestions from Bruce Schneier on How Public AI Can Strengthen Democracy – primarily an effort to carry the healthcare “public possibility” mannequin to the event of AI. Kemba is open to the concept; Sultan questions whether or not we’d like it.
Brandon stories on two payments unanimously authorised by the Home Commerce Committee. The first would power divestment of TikTok; the second would bar the sale of private information to adversary nations like China and Russia. I can not resist weighing in, despite the fact that I will be doing a complete bonus episode (496) this week on a White Home govt order to limit information transfers to adversaries.
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