The federal Cybersecurity Framework 4 years later: What’s next for cybersecurity?

Brookings

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm

As Americans depend more and more on digital communications and information in their work and daily lives, the challenges of protecting the security of information and resiliency of networks in our technology-driven world keep growing and changing. In February 2013, President Obama signed executive order 13636, which first mandated the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop an approach to combat cybersecurity risks against critical infrastructure. One year later, NIST issued its “Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity,” which has been widely used by government and private sector organizations.

Now approaching four years since the NIST Cybersecurity Framework was issued, it is undergoing revision, and the Trump administration is implementing a May 2017 executive order on cybersecurity. Meanwhile, cybersecurity continues to grow as an issue in the face of increasingly aggressive exploitation by state actors and cyber-criminals alike, continuing concern about election security in 2018 elections, as well as additional high-profile hacks and data breaches.

The Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings will hold a discussion among key policy leaders on what has happened in U.S. cybersecurity policy since the NIST Cybersecurity Framework came out in 2013, and what lies ahead. Panelists will discuss where the United States’ cybersecurity resiliency stands, and what the future holds regarding the implementation of President Trump’s executive order, international engagement, and other policies.

 

 

MODERATOR

Cameron F. Kerry

Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow - Governance StudiesCenter for Technology Innovation

@Cam_Kerry

Annie Anton

Annie Antón

Professor - Georgia Institute of Technology

GT_AnnieAnton

Jeanette Manfra

Jeanette Manfra

Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications -Department of Homeland Security

Tom Wheeler, senior fellow. GS

Tom Wheeler

Visiting Fellow - Governance StudiesCenter for Technology Innovation

@tewheels



Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW Falk Auditorium
Washington , DC 20036
US