What comes after a breach? Detection, containment, mitigation, and most importantly – information-sharing.
Like any major event, the recent whirlwind of cybersecurity activity will drive an influx of new solutions, all purporting to solve the problem – the SolarWinds breach as one example.
There is no easy button or silver bullet to solving cybersecurity issues, particularly not one of this nature. It will take time and requires new levels of cooperation between the public and private sectors to defend against threats and work towards a solution.
For instance, the Government Accountability Office made “over 3,000 recommendations to federal agencies to address cybersecurity shortcomings – and reported about 600 that had not been fully implemented as of early September 2020.” Of these nearly 600 recommendations, GAO designated 75 as a priority, including shoring up the government’s “supply chain risk management task force” through public/private partnerships.
In comparison to governments worldwide, the United States has the most advanced supply chain controls in many areas – but…
