DoD and NATA to sign cybersecurity pact
National Cyber Response Coordination Group sees a great benefit to dealing with a single NATO cybersecurity agency, rather than working bilateralluy with twenty-six nations; Eastern European hackers a major concern
Perhaps it was all planned long before a hacker this month attempted to bring down the .mil root servers along with two others, but no doubt that event was on the minds of DoD and NATO authorities as they prepared last week to put the final touches on an agreement to share IT incident and threat information. “It’s a lot easier for me to work with NATO than twenty-six countries bilaterally,” said Mark Hall, director of DOD’s International Information Assurance Program and co-chair of the National Cyber Response Coordination Group (NCRCG). The NCRCG, as readers know, coordinates the federal government’s incident response by guiding federal agencies and cooperating with the private sector, state governments and other nations to defend U.S. cyberspace. The decision to bring NATO on board is sure to help, especially because many of the newer, eastern European countries in the NATO bloc are the home of a rising breed of malevolent hackers.
-read more in Rutrell Yasin’s FCW report
