- Taking Stock of Trump’s Cybersecurity Executive Order So Far (Wired): What has happened since President Trump finally signed his Cyber Executive Order on May 11? According to a recent article, many deadlines set by the Order have already been missed and several more are looming. Most of these deadlines are simply information gathering tools, however, and won’t lead to real results, the author argues. Instead, the Trump administration needs to begin implementing a concrete policy to achieve long term success, the article says. Despite some infighting within Trump’s staff, the author of the piece says the EO’s first phase can still be completed on time. The full article can be read here.
- Companies should treat cybersecurity as a matter of ethics (SF Chronicle): An article in the San Francisco Chronicle over the weekend suggested a new metric for how cyber security should be viewed. The piece explains the view of Malcom Harkins, former Chief Security and Privacy Officer at Intel Corp., who thinks cyber should be treated as a social responsibility. Instead of producing devices that cannot be secured, Harkins says cyber security should be approached like fighting climate change, promoting diversity, and fighting poverty. While 100% security may be unobtainable, it should not prevent companies from trying to achieve it, and in doing so, from protecting society, the article says. The full article can be read here.
- Merkel ally cites thousands of cyber attacks from Russian IP addresses (Reuters): Russian attempts to influence elections did not stop last fall with the U.S. presidential race, according to new reports yesterday. Julia Kloeckner, vice chairman of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, said that her website had over 3,000 attacks on Sunday before the debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Social Democratic leader Martin Schulz. The article said that this round of attacks follows a trend dating back to Summer 2015 that German intelligence has attributed to a Russian group called APT 28. German intelligence agencies also believe, according to the article, that Putin would prefer a different Chancellor to Merkel. The full article can be read here.
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Cyber Round Up: Trump’s Cybersecurity Executive Order So Far; Treating Cyber like Ethics; Russian Interference in German Election
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