Forging a Public-Private Partnership: The 'Wonk-Free' Approach to Cyber Security

摘要

In an IT-reliant society like the US, there is no real physical or economic security without information security. This reality is becoming more apparent every day, as the nation's information infrastructure — and the physical infrastructure it supports — comes under attack from hackers and cyber criminals. Given this reality, companies in the private sector have a choice: adopt a proactive, self-regulatory stance that scales with the nature of the risk and evolves with the changing nature of the threat, or wait for the federal government to step in and legislate the necessary protections.