We are rethinking homeland security — changing our posture, setting course to confront systemic risk and embracing a new “collective defense” strategy.
Each of us is on the frontlines of the digital battlefield, so we must work together to protect ourselves. Any of us could be the weak link that not only allows adversaries to infect our systems but allows them to spread further into others.
The Department of Homeland Security cannot (and should not) protect every system, every network and every smartphone.
Instead, in an era when our digital enemies are crowd-sourcing attacks, we must crowd-source our response.
That means bringing government agencies, industries and other partners together to break down silos — much as we did after 9/11 in our counterterrorism efforts — so that we not only share threat data in real-time but take immediate, collective action.
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