Cybersecurity Policy

Senior representatives from the US government’s cybersecurity response headlined the seventh annual Aspen Cyber Summit. Guests heard keynotes from DHS Under Secretary for Policy Rob Silvers, TSA Administrator David Pekoske, and White House Principal Deputy National Cyber Director Kemba Walden.

As the U.S. Congress moves closer to enacting a federal cyber incident reporting requirement (and as the administration fractures over how best to craft it), it is important to remember that there is another path — the federal government’s partnership with the fifty states.

As Russia’s war spills into cyberspace, there is a growing risk of large-scale cyber disruptions well beyond Ukraine. How did the digital world become so vulnerable to big shocks? What can be done to create resilience? And how serious and widespread is systemic cyber risk? In this primer, experts lay out the basics.