Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

Read the full panel recap: securityandtechnology.org/blog/without-w… CLTC is grateful to each of these fantastic speakers for joining us at the Summit and bringing their expertise to this important conversation. #CyberCivilDefense

🤝 David Batz (@DavBatz), Managing Director of Cyber & Infrastructure Security at @Edison_Electric Institute, highlighted the importance of building mutual assistance programs.

Check out the latest blog post from our friends at @IST_org spotlighting a #CyberCivilDefense Summit panel, "Without Washington: Rethinking Shared Responsibility for Regional Cyber Resilience.” securityandtechnology.org/blog/without-w…

💡Officer Ahern emphasized that cybersecurity funding and regulation must go hand-in-hand. States can’t cut their way to resilience, and they can’t protect what they don’t invest in.

➕Adding $100M to the state budget for remediating legacy systems and ensuring security basics like MFA are in place 🤝Offering shared cybersecurity services to counties and municipalities through New York’s Joint Security Operations Center (JSOC)

At the #CyberCivilDefense Summit, @politico's Maggie Miller sat down with New York’s Chief Cyber Officer, Colin Ahern, to discuss the State’s “whole-of-state” approach to cybersecurity. 🗽⬇️Officer Ahern pinpointed several key cybersecurity trends in New York:

@CLTCBerkeley recently published a white paper titled, The Roadmap to Community Cyber Defense. The paper is based on findings from the first year of operations of the Cyber Resilience Corps and proposes a “co-responsibility model” for cybersecurity. cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/ro…

New Report: “The Roadmap to Community Cyber Defense"; AISI Seeking Graduate Student Researcher; CLTC Debuts "10 Years of Securing the Future" Video - mailchi.mp/berkeley/new-r…

⬆️Given these unique conditions, she argued island territories require special consideration in federal #cybersecurity funding formulas and cybersecurity requirements. She warned that a ‘one size fits all’ approach often leaves smaller, underserved communities behind.

Island territories typically: ⚙️Rely heavily on interconnected systems for all essential services, creating single points of failure that can cascade across the entire infrastructure ecosystem. 🛜Have insufficient internet infrastructure, making them vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Congresswoman @StaceyPlaskett, representative of the U.S. Virgin Islands, opened the #CyberCivilDefense Summit with remarks on the need to ensure U.S. #territories are not left behind in efforts to harden the nation’s critical infrastructure against cyber threats.