National Cyber Director Chris Inglis drew attention on Friday to the continued absence of a national cybersecurity strategy—something the Government Accountability Office expects his office to deliver—while envisioning collaboration across sectors of industry that may have independently managed risks in the past, but are now increasingly dependent on each other.
“I thought I might give voice to what is the sense of an emerging strategy,” Inglis said. “This isn’t the US strategy, but it is a sense of the emerging strategy that I would, in part, observe, in part kind of use as my mantra of what we need to do going forward that addresses not just ransomware but more broadly addresses kind of the causes underneath that give rise to that phenomenon and so many others.”
Inglis was speaking at an event the law firm Venable hosted on combating ransomware, one year after a comprehensive report stakeholders from across the public and private sectors—including nonprofit entities—published with recommendations to address the challenge.
“What we need to do in high consultation and high collaboration, is figure out what we do together so that we spread that risk across…
