NTIA Releases Cybersecurity Report

The National Telecommunications & Information Administration has released a report on botnets, DDoS attacks and other cyber threats. The report was based on over 40 responses to NTIA's request for comments on those attacks, which was issued last June. A final report that incorporates the NTIA report is due to the President by May 11, 2018.

NTIA got 47 responses, including from NCTA-The Internet & Television Association, with what the agency said were several broad themes: addressing risks is a shared responsibility; distributed, automated attacks are linked to other threats; they are global and require international cooperation. NTIA said the commenters "resoundingly" endorsed voluntary, consensus-based and community-led processes, including the National Institute of Standards & Technology and NTIA's privacy multi-stakeholder processes. There were also strong voices against too large a regulatory role by government, but others said that the lack of existing security protection and the lack of market incentives to adopt them meant there was greater need for "policy interventions."