Cyberspace Solarium Commission: Final Report 2020

By Cyberspace Solarium Commission

Our country is at risk, not only from a catastrophic cyberattack but from millions of daily intrusions disrupting everything from financial transactions to the inner workings of our electoral system. Capturing the complexity of this challenge is hard. Even the man credited with inventing the term "cyberspace," the science fiction author William Gibson, would later criticize it as an "evocative and essentially meaningless" buzzword.In studying this issue, it is easy to descend into a morass of classification, acronyms, jargon, and obscure government organization charts. To avoid that, we tried something different: an unclassified report that we hope will be found readable by the very people who are affected by cyber insecurity-everyone. This report is also aimed squarely at action; it has numerous recommendations addressing organizational, policy, and technical issues, and we included an appendix with draft bills that Congress can rapidly act upon to put these ideas into practice and make America more secure.The reality is that we are dangerously insecure in cyber. Your entire life-your paycheck, your health care, your electricity-increasingly relies on networks of digital devices that store, process, and analyze data. These networks are vulnerable, if not already compromised. Our country has lost hundreds of billions of dollars to nation-state-sponsored intellectual property theft using cyber espionage. A major cyberattack on the nation's critical infrastructure and economic system would create chaos and lasting damage exceeding that wreaked by fires in California, floods in the Midwest, and hurricanes in the Southeast.To prevent this from happening, our report outlines a new cyber strategy and provides more than 75 recommendations for action across the public and private sectors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0892DJTBS
• ISBN13: 9798648107915
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"