The Current State Of Cyber Defense

Dr. Eric Cole, CEO of Secure Anchor Consulting, considered to be one of the Nation’s Top Cyber Security Experts, advising President Obama, the CIA, Bill Gates, McAfee, & Lockheed Martin, author of many books on cyber-security participates in Risk Roundup to discuss the “Current State of Cyber Defense.”

Cyber Defense

When security risks from cyberspace, merge, and converge with aquaspace, geospace, and space (CAGS), building effective cyber defense has never been more critical for individuals and entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA) than it is now. 

As we see today, the heightened risk and fragility from cyberspace is threatening to reverse major development gains for nations across CAGS. So, the question is, if countries are to protect their hard-fought progress and development, how should they build a cyber defense? What is the essential requirement to build a cyber defense?

It seems that the ability to defend in cyberspace depends upon organizations’ ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and rapidly recover from any potentially disruptive cybersecurity event. It is said that Resilience is the first line of defense, even in cyberspace. It is therefore essential to:

• Establish cyber-security checkpoints
• Assure continuity of digital services
• Establish a resilient cyber supply chain
• Restrict uncontrolled movement of cyber weapons
• Create resilient cyber resources
• Develop an ability to deal with interconnected cybersecurity risks and casualties
• Establish resilient cyber communications systems
• Create resilient CAGS systems

The commitment towards cyber defense is based on the recognition that the cybersecurity environment has changed, and that the resilience of cyberspace is the first line of defense for today’s interconnected CAGS ecosystem.

Since cybersecurity risk, resilience, and defense preparedness walk hand in hand, nations will thrive when all of its components know how to build an effective cyber defense. The question is:

• Do we understand the baseline requirements of cyber defense?
• Do we know who is involved in cyber defense and preparedness?

Current State

To build resiliency in cyber initiatives and connected CAGS infrastructures, it requires developing and maintaining individual and collective capacity to resist and defend against cyber-attacks. This involves creating, maintaining, and supporting a well-organized cyber defense and resiliency plan. The question is:

• Do nations have well organized cyber defense plan?
• What is the current state of cyber defense globally?
• How should cyber defense be addressed under the circumstances?
• How should nations plan cyber defense posture?
• Do nations have cyber defense best practices? Are they shared with everyone?

Due to cyberspace, the nature of security risks has evolved in not only cyberspace but also aquaspace, geospace, and space! To be able to understand what is at risk and how to be resilient and build a defense, NGIOA decision-makers must first know what assets they are protecting. The question is whether the decision-makers understand the true nature of the assets they are protecting.

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About the Guest

Dr. Eric Cole is the CEO of Secure Anchor Consulting, based in the United States. He is considered to be one of the nation’s top Cyber Security Experts, advising President Obama, the CIA, Bill Gates, McAfee, & Lockheed Martin. He is the author of many books on Cyber-Security.

About the Host of Risk Roundup

Jayshree Pandya (née Bhatt), the founder and chief executive officer of Risk Group LLC(www.riskgroupllc.com), is working passionately to define a new security-centric operating system for humanity. Her efforts towards building a strategic security risk analytics platform are to equip the global strategic security community with the tools and culture to collectively imagine the strategic security risks to our future and to define and design a new security-centric operating system for the future of humanity. 

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