The Defense Bill Could Rewrite How the US Does Cyber Defense

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https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/07/defense-bill-could-rewrite-how-us-does-cyber-defense/166806/

By Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
Government Executive
July 10, 2020

A new Office of Joint Cyber Planning proposed in an amendment to the 2021 
defense policy bill aims to help government and private actors respond more 
quickly to cyber attacks mounted from Russia, China, and elsewhere.

“The Office shall lead Government-wide and public-private planning for cyber 
defense campaigns, including the development of a set of coordinated actions to 
respond to and recover from significant cyber incidents” reads the amendment. 
It would allocate $15 million to stand up the office as part of the 
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA.

Today, companies are largely on their own for cybersecurity defense. Even in 
responding to big incidents, there’s little coordination between the government 
and the private sector.

Take, for example, the DNC hack of 2016. The U.S. government may have known as 
early as 2015 about Russians’ presence on servers belonging to the Democratic 
National Committee. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike spotted unusual activity 
on those servers in April 2016. But it wasn’t until July 2018, nearly two years 
after the release of information stolen from the DNC, that the NSA announced 
the formation of a special group to counter aggressive Russian cyber 
activities.

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