[1]Cybersecurity in the 2017 National Security Strategy:
The administration should be given relatively high marks for the
document's cybersecurity components-especially for recognizing the
breadth of the threat and that it's going to take more than the help
desk to fix it. Admittedly, that's a pretty low bar. But National
Security Strategy documents are not known as documents where big
policy innovation occurs. Instead, the best you can usually do is
articulate the broad contours of the main threats to national
security coupled with some rough themes about what the government
will do to make things better. Here, the administration does not
isolate "the cyber" to the sidelines; instead, by talking about
cyber issues throughout the document, the administration shows an
understanding that cyberspace is a critical part to practically
every aspect of national security.
(Via [2]Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices)
I haven't yet had the time to read the National Security Strategy (NSS)
for the US, but I have read quite a bit of the analysis (I'm okay with
spoilers). The cited post above is one of the most comprehensive I've
come across.
The two big take-aways are the surprise at the focus on cybersecurity,
as talked about in the quote above, and the lack of even a mention
about better protecting elections.
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My original entry is here: [3]Cybersecurity in the 2017 National
Security Strategy. It posted Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:49:49 +0000.
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References
1.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/cybersecurity-2017-national-security-strategy
2.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/recent
3.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=766
