Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 6/10/23
How Biden's cyber strategy compares to those of previous admins, Biden's game-changing security by design focus, Sec. 702 might not be renewed, India's job scams, Spain's 'sewer rat' ex-spy
Twenty-Five Years of White House Cyber Policies
In Lawfare Blog, Jason Healey, Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs, highlights in this first piece in a two-part series about White House cybersecurity policies how the Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS), which he helped draft, compares with similar efforts by earlier administrations.
Real strategic concepts should be simple and short. The U.S. Cold War strategy was a single word (containment). The Army’s counterinsurgency strategy could be encapsulated in a simple phrase (roughly, to win hearts and minds). Moreover, a strategic concept should be expandable, that is, practitioners can take the basic strategic idea and unpack it to develop deeper objectives in line with the established concept. They are also both negatable, so that a critic can argue no, not “hearts and minds” but “kill the insurgents.” Together, these efforts dri…
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