Cyber Preparedness Symposium Leaves Unanswered Questions

WASHINGTON -- National Symposium on Unifying Cyber Preparedness Efforts -- Leaders of industry and academia today agreed that they need to work better together to prepare for cyber security threats. They just didn’t seem sure how to do it, or exactly what the threats are.

In a microcosm of the cross-industry, cross-disciplinary problems that it was called to help resolve, the symposium demonstrated a desire among some sectors to improve the security situation in the U.S., but few concrete ideas on how to coordinate the so-called “silos of excellence” that remain disconnected across the country.

Indeed, the panelists and participants showed little agreement on what “cyber preparedness” really means -- the half-day discussion meandered from defending against attacks on the nation’s government and infrastructure to resolving specific vulnerabilities on end-user PCs.

The idea was to discuss how government, industry, critical infrastructure providers, Congress, and academia can work together to build a cross-disciplinary effort to prepare for cyber threats.
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