Creating a new National Cyber Director position is the right move—but only if he can get corporate America on board.
, which carries nearly half of the East Coast’s jet fuel and gasoline, raises the question for the zillionth time: When is the government going to start taking serious measures to prevent, or at least minimize, these debilitating—potentially catastrophic—incidents?, an official vested with powers to order, coordinate, and enforce cybersecurity actions in the public and private sector..
But no mandatory measures were imposed. Executives sent their specialists to ISAC meetings, but they weren’t required to do anything afterward. Banks took aggressive measures to fend off hackers, because security was at the heart of their business. Electrical power and pipeline companies didn’t, for the most part, because security was very expensive and no attacks had yet taken place.Now, of course, attacks are commonplace. Hundreds of cybersecurity companies have grown up to handle them.
, placing them under the wing of the Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technology.However, Solarium staffers countered, the National Security Council has never been very good at running operations—and it has few avenues for reaching out to private industry. A National Cyber Director, besides being the president’s chief advisor on the issue, would be focused on operations and would have powers to work with industry.Key legislators sided with the Solarium’s approach.
Still, it remains to be seen whether Inglis will be able to do what the theoretical outlines of his post envision. One challenge will be how he coordinates with the deputy national security adviser, Anne Neuberger, another former NSA official who has worked well with Inglis in the past but is also known as a tenacious bureaucratic fighter. Her job is to set policy; Inglis’ will be to enforce and coordinate it with other agencies and with the private sector.
Colonial shut down its main pipelines as a precautionary measure, to prevent DarkSide from exploiting those weak links. Company spokesmen have been vague on when they can turn the valves back on, saying only that it will take them more than one or two days but less long than six weeks.One reason for this vagueness is that, as we’ve learned in the last few days, the company was hit with a ransomware attack.
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