“We just haven’t settled on the big concepts yet,” was former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden’s message about cyber security to the American Enterprise Institute on October 27, 2015. His talk was organized around an op-ed that appeared the same day on RealClearDefense and four key points.
Number one, that the private sector bears a burden of responsibility in this domain that is not intuitively obvious for those of us who have had experience in national security in the other domains – the prominence of the private sector. Number two, the government still has a very important role to play. Number three, oh, for God’s sake, let’s just get on with it. We’ve been admiring the problem and arguing about metaphysical issues for so long. And then, number four, let’s get on with it in a way that really does reflect our values, right? So those four points: private sector, still a government role, get on with it, reflect our values.
A complete transcript is available here. A video of Hayden’s entire talk and question and answer period is embedded below, courtesy of the American Enterprise Institute.
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