The FISMA Focus IPD

From: Financial Times

Cyber security solutions that should be required reading for politicians worldwide

Review by Hannah Kuchler

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Now that lives, rather than data or dollars, are on the line, Schneier believes cyber security should not be left to the market: elsewhere, government regulates things that kill. The private sector will need to spend much more — and regulation may be required to force their hand.

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Powerful parallels with how society has dealt with previous technological revolutions are employed to bolster his case — the internet is not as exceptional as many in Silicon Valley would like to think. He cites aeroplane safety regulation transforming air travel into the safest mode of transport, arguing for a new US federal agency to oversee cyber security just as new agencies were created to protect the public from every other major innovation, from cars to radio to atomic energy.

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