Robert Silvers on the Cyber Safety Review Board
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Cyber Safety Review Board was created by a Biden administration Executive Order entitled, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.” The Board reviews major cyber events and makes concrete recommendations that can drive improvements within the private and public sectors. Lawfare Senior Editor Stephanie Pell sat down with Robert Silvers, Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans at the Department of Homeland Security and Chair of the Cyber Safety Review Board, to discuss the Board’s mission and work. They talked about the two reports that the Board has issued, one that it’s currently working on, and a legislative proposal from DHS that seeks to codify the Board in the law and ensure that the Board receives the information it needs to continue to advance the overall security and resiliency of our digital ecosystem.
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| 1:24.0 | We've seen the recent hacks at MGM, very high profile attacks that took down operations, |
| 1:30.2 | at some prominent casino operations across the United States. And some of these groups are |
| 1:37.7 | the very same groups that we looked at as part of the broader kind of laps its ecosystem |
| 1:42.5 | of all these hackers who are getting online into telegram channels and comparing notes. |
| 1:49.2 | We made note in the report how yeah, people are focusing on the name lapses and some use |
| 1:53.0 | that name, but it's these sort of overlapping webs of loosely affiliated groups. And indeed, |
| 1:58.4 | we looked at some of the the actors behind these recent attacks. So the lessons learned |
| 2:03.6 | from lapses are critical to our ongoing defense. |
| 2:08.6 | I'm Stephanie Pell, senior editor at Law Fair, and this is the Law Fair podcast September |
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