Forbes November 18, 2024
President Donald Trump’s administration will assume a cybersecurity portfolio that has continued to evolve toward combating digital threats since the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency (CISA) was created 6 years ago out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). CISA’s mission is a formidable one. The list of hostile threat players in cyberspace is quite extensive. Nation-states, organized criminals, terrorists, and hacktivists are all included.
Cybersecurity is an ongoing process that continually morphs and needs investments in technology and people to be resilient. Unfortunately, government and industry are already at an asymmetrical disadvantage. Threat actors, particularly state-sponsored and criminal enterprises, are taking advantage of the growing cyberattack surface and utilizing their resources to employ increasingly complex methods for identifying target...