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Cyber Round Up: National Cyber Incident Response Plan; CNBC sponsors Cambridge Cybersecurity Summit; Microsoft promotes transparency worldwide

  • National cyber incident response plan: We need your input (CSO):   The Department of Homeland Security is seeking public comment on a recently released draft copy of the National Cyber Incident Response Plan.   A recent CSO article highlights the Obama Administration’s focus on defining federal agencies’ roles in the event of a cyber incident.  One major result of this effort is a combined effort from the government, private sector, and industry officials to develop a draft plan detailing a coordinated response, the article says.  The full draft of the plan is in this post, and directions for submitting a comment can be found here.  The article from CSO can be found here.
  • Cybersecurity experts convene at CNBC summit as threat looms (CNBC):  Embracing a similar theme as the above post, an article from CNBC highlights the necessary increase cooperation between government and the private sector in tackling cyber challenges.   Prominent government officials from the FBI, NSA, and CyberCommand, as well as representatives from SAP, IBM, and Akamai are meeting today in Cambridge in a summit sponsored by CNBC, MIT, and The Aspen Institute.   The article says that cyber crime will cost the global economy $445 billion in 2016.  Increased cooperation between public and private sectors is crucial to being able to respond quickly and effectively to the growing cyber threats, the article argues.  The full text of the article can be found here.
  • Here’s Where Microsoft Opened a Cybersecurity and ‘Transparency’ Outpost (Fortune):   Microsoft recently announced a plan to open a transparency and cybersecurity center in Singapore, according to a recent Fortune article.   The center reflects Microsoft’s embrace of the public-private partnership theme that dominates today’s post, as it joins similar Microsoft facilities in Washington state, Belgium, and Beijing.   The main purpose of the centers, the article discusses, is to provide foreign governments with source code and cybersecurity data.  Public-private relationships are a major component in cybersecurity, and the way to achieve this is by building transparency and trust, Jonathan Vanian reports.  The full text of the article can be found here.

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