{"id":563,"date":"2011-06-14T09:16:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rud.is\/b\/?p=563"},"modified":"2011-06-14T09:16:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:16:03","slug":"weis-2011-keynote-dr-christopher-greer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2011\/06\/14\/weis-2011-keynote-dr-christopher-greer\/","title":{"rendered":"WEIS 2011 :: Keynote :: Dr Christopher Greer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Greer [cgreer at ostp.eop.gov] is Assistant Director, Information Technology R&#038;D, Office of Science &#038; Technology Policy, The White House<\/p>\n<p>Opening: &#8220;The expertise of the attendees is greatly needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He provided a broad overview of the goals &#038; initiatives of the federal government as they relate to domestic &#038; international cybersecurity. Greer went through the responsibilities of various agencies and made it clear that this is a highly distributed effort across all sectors of government. <\/p>\n<p>He emphasized the need for a close partnership with private sector to accomplish these goals and also the criticality of not just coming up with plans but also implementing those plans.<\/p>\n<p>It really was a high-level overview and &#8211; as I point out in the twitter transcript &#8211; would have been cooler if Dr Greer did a deep-dive on 2-3 items vs do a survey. He did set the tone pretty well &#8211; we are in challenging times that are changing rapidly. We&#8217;re still fighting the fights of 5-10 years ago but are working to provide a framework for keeping pace with cybercrimminals. The government is &#8220;doing stuff&#8221;, but it&#8217;s all useless without translating thousands of pages of legal mumbo jumbo into practical, actionable activities.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 minute post-talk Q&#038;A was far better than the actual preso.<\/p>\n<p><b>Twitter transcript<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><code>#weis2011 Obama: \"America's economic prosperity in 21st cent will depend on cybersecurity\" :: sec begets growth but underscores threats, too<\/p>\n<p>#weis2011 one time we never expected every individual to need an IP address, now even refrigerators have one. <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/tag\/ipv6\/\">#IPv6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#weis2011 IPv6 need exacerbated by mobile, mobile apps themselves have great benefit, but also introduces new threat vector.<\/p>\n<p>#weis2011 OSTP runs phishing tests 3x year #spiffy<\/p>\n<p>#weis2011 POTUS Strategy: Catalyze brkthrus for natnl priorities, promote mkt-based innov; invest in building blocks of american innovation<\/p>\n<p>#weis2011 policy review (2009) themes: lead frm top;build cap for dig natin;share resp for cybersec;effective info sharing\/irp; encrge innov<\/p>\n<p>#weis2011 pimping the International Strategy For Cyberspace release recently  http:\/\/1.usa.gov\/jZXIdE <\/p>\n<p>#weis2011 key \"norms\" in ISC report: upholding fundamental freedoms (esp speech), global interoperability & cybersecurity due diligence<\/p>\n<p>#weis2011 Greer shifting to talking about legis;  OSTP has been wrkng to promote good bills esp for natnl data breach rprting & penalties<\/p>\n<p>#weis2011 computer fraud & abuse act is *25 years old*. We need new regulations to help fight 21st century crime < 25 years! yikes!\n\n#weis2011 FISMA shifting from compliance-based to proactive protection-based; mentioned EINSTEIN IDS\/ISP\n\n#wes2011 pimping http:\/\/csrc.nist.gov\/nice\/ education &#038; awareness efforts\n\n#weis2011 pimping fed trusted ID initiative http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/nstic\/ ; password are $ &#038; failing; multiple accts are real &#038; problematic\n\n#weis2011 (pers comment) the audience knows much of what Greer is saying, surprised he's giving such a broad overview vs 2\/3 deep dives\n\n#weis2011 (pers comment) the efforts for fed cybesec seem waaay to disjoint &#038; distributed to truly be effective.\n\n#weis2011 pimping fed trusted ID initiative http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/nstic ; password are $ &#038; failing; multiple accts are real &#038; problematic\n\n#weis2011 pimping http:\/\/www.nitrd.gov\/ CSIA, SSG &#038; SCORE < much alphabet soup in fed cybersec\u2026the letters didn't help senate.gov today\n\n#weis2011 results of many research efforts are both near &#038; just over the horizon, but all useless if not put into effective practice\n\n#weiss2011 impt to work with priv sector on economics of legis&#038;policy choices (immunity\/liability\/safe hrbr\/incentives\/disclosure\/audit)\n\n#weis2011 need to understand market factors incentivizing hackers (valuation\/cost-ben\/risk-decision making\/criminal markets)\n\n#weis2011 (pers comment) another poke at Microsoft when talking about server security. 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