What to Expect from Congress’ Cyber Strategy Brain Trust 

What to Expect from Congress’ Cyber Strategy Brain Trust 

Foreign adversaries are increasingly turning to cyberattacks to disrupt the U.S. economy, steal trade secrets and undermine the political process, and Congress is teaming with government and industry experts to fight back.   


Lawmakers in May stood up the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a 16-person panel charged with reviewing U.S. cyber strategy and recommending policy changes to improve the country’s response to digital threats. The group, whose members include lawmakers, high-ranking national security officials and a smattering of industry experts, is expected to release its findings around the end of the year.


Nextgov recently sat down with the commission’s co-chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., to discuss gaps in U.S. cyber policy, the high turnover among national security officials and what we can expect from the commission’s report.


This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.


Nextgov: The commission had a pretty broad purview. What were some of the areas where you guys focused your attention?


Gallagher: There's really three buckets of recommendations emerging broadly. One is on the policy itself. We're trying to figure out whether they've hit the mark, whether we need to go further, whether we can change a few things here. I do think it's fair to say the more aggressive approach and the devolution of authorities down to the lower levels have been a positive development, in my opinion at least. The second bucket is sort of this question of process, whether the interagency currently has a coherent process in cyberspace, where are there insufficient authorities, where are ..

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