Congressmember John Katko gathered Homeland Security officials and municipal leaders Friday to discuss the best ways to address the growing cybersecurity threats facing the public and private sectors. There have been ransomware attacks on at least a dozen Central New York School districts, not to mention Onondaga County’s library system in recent weeks. Katko likens it to this generation’s 9/11 attacks:
“Before 9/11, we had so many threat indicators that something very serious was going to happen. We ignored them, and paid a terrible price for that. Businesses and entities don’t always pay enough attention to cyber issues, and as the threat builds, and as the conflicts grow internationally, it’s a very serious component.”
Bradford Willke is an assistant director with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
“This is not an IT security problem. This is a risk management environment. This is a business problem. This is going to take a lot of disciplines to get their hands around it. Having somebody courageous enough to walk through what they suffered during an attack, they types of questions they had to answer for management and…
