GEN Paul M. Nakasone, Commander of U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), Director of NSA, and Chief of the Central Security Service (CSS), offered insight into what the future of cybersecurity and signals intelligence may look like during a conference in Washington earlier this month.
Looking to the future, GEN Nakasone focused on what he called “the three P’s”: the imminent period of intense competition with the People’s Republic of China (PRC); the need for persistent engagement with public-private partners; and the critical role that the next generation of people will have in providing the United States with a competitive advantage against its adversaries.
“As we think about the future five years hence, I’m very encouraged. I am very, very optimistic,” he said during a fireside chat at the annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit. “I look to the future, and I think that our Nation, obviously the folks that work here in the public and the private sector, will all be the beneficiaries.”
When GEN Nakasone took the reins in 2018, he said the leading priority for the Command and Agency was securing the 2018 midterm elections. Since then, the continued rise of the PRC and Russia as global threats and the protection of critical systems and infrastructure from cyber threats have grown to become leading priorities.
“Everything that we’ve done since, we weren’t talking about in 2018,” said GEN Nakasone, who explained how cybersecurity has become synonymous with national security during his time atop USCYBERCOM and NSA/CSS. “Now, if I would have said that in 2018, that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows. But what have we seen since 2018? We’ve seen supply chain, we’ve seen zero days, we’ve seen ransomware, we’ve seen a number of different actors that have change ..
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