FirstNet plans to provide state-of-the-art cybersecurity by employing innovative methods that offerors are expected to propose in the request-for-proposals (RFP) process, but the entire public-safety community needs to take action to help ensure that subscriber agencies are not negatively impacted by cyberthreats, according to a panel of cybersecurity experts.
FirstNet’s cybersecurity goal—outlined in the RFP, which calls for proposals to be submitted by May 31—is “ensuring end-to-end security for the FirstNet network,” according to Glenn Zimmerman, senior security architect for FirstNet. There
“Each of the subdomains that comprise the FirstNet network have to stand on their own and be secure,” Zimmerman said during a cybersecurity panel conducted at IWCE2016 in March. “And, when you put it all together, the holistic aggregate of those subdomains needs to be secure, as well. That means what we’re looking for is designing offsets within each of those domains to counter a failure in another aspect of the overall network.
“There is never, from a planning perspective, the assumption that anything is fool-proof. The reason is that fools are actually pretty ingenious. They’ll figure out a way around almost everything. That’s why you have to have means and methods to counteract and mitigate those threats, capabilities and inherent weaknesses.” For the full article click here
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