New Episode: From TikTok to AI Regs – How U.S. Cyber Policy Can Guide Enterprises

Here’s a taste of the episode:

Cybersecurity Awareness Month doesn’t make sense to Richard J. Harknett, who helped design the U.S. national cybersecurity strategy.

It just doesn’t jibe with the “persistent engagement” that’s required to stay ahead of would-be attackers: “If you don’t have in your organization a continuous security protocol of getting people to be attentive to how they could be exploited, they’re going to get beat in this game by the adversary who is spending a hundred percent of their time thinking about exploitation.”

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That proactive mentality really needs to come from the top, he says. “I could give you a list of technical things you could do, but from an organizational business planning standpoint, it’s about making sure that those that you are entrusting with having the portfolio of cybersecurity as a lead are part and parcel of your business practices.”

That means having chief information security officers (CISOs) in the room when you’re making budgets and setting business strategies. It also means taking national security issues seriously. Like what to do about TikTok, which Congress will debate in the next few weeks. At the national level, Harknett worries about adversaries (like China) wreaking havoc with our democracy by peddling divisive information. So he’s for banning the mega-popular social media platform if it doesn’t take steps to make its code (and what it does with its data) more transparent. “I coach high school girls soccer. So this is not a very popular view [with them].”

[LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE: Ep. 23 – From TikTok to AI Regs, How U.S. Cyber Policy Can Guide Enterprises]

If you don’t have in your organization a continuous security protocol of getting people to be attentive to how they could be exploited, they’re going to get beat.

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