Officially, October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Cybersecurity Month, but it has become clear that February is the preferred month for the White House to unveil cybersecurity initiatives.
A year ago at this time, the White House convened a Cybersecurity Summit at Stanford University, with President Obama traveling out for a public workshop and meetings with tech executives. It was just before Valentine’s Day 2014 that the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) came to Brookings to unveil NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework, a roadmap for organizations to review their cybersecurity risk and map cybersecurity preparedness to a variety of global standards. One year before that, the administration cybersecurity leaders gathered at the Department of Commerce to announce the executive order that directed and empowered NIST to develop its framework. (And, while only partially related to cybersecurity, the White House announced its Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights in February 2012). For the full article click here
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