The government needs to collect and store better data to develop a more effective cyber strategy and strengthen defenses, Cyberspace Solarium Commission members said March 17.
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission, which laid out several cyber policy recommendations March 11, suggested that the broader federal government and private sector adopt the Department of Defense’s defend forward policy, in which the DoD can operate on foreign networks, as part of a larger national strategy focused on using both military and non-military tools to deter adversaries.
But questions remain about how the effectiveness of that approach will be measured.
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” said Tom Fanning, a commissioner and CEO of Southern Company, a utility company.
Former deputy director of the NSA Chris Inglis, another commissioner, said that the effectiveness of defend forward could be evaluated by the number of allied nations that embrace the approach. But he also said that its effectiveness could be evaluated by a decrease in the amount of high-profile attacks that occurred over the next three to five years, such as WannaCry, NotPetya and Russian election interference.
“That’s harder to measure with high confidence just because it’s harder to measure a negative, it’s hard to measure what they would’ve done otherwise,” Inglis said on a webinar hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “But that being said, we need to actually work hard to tr ..
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