By Michael Daniel, President and CEO, Cyber Threat Alliance The Administration recently released a Presidential Memorandum entitled Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime – The White House and it is intended to boost the US government’s offensive cyber operations capability. The Memorandum…
By Michael Daniel, CTA President & CEO Cyber threats have never been static, and 2026 will be no different. The digital environment will continue to evolve, with malicious actors and defenders changing behaviors in response to each other. While some surprises are inevitable at a small scale,…
Congressional failure to reauthorize the cyber information sharing statute would deal a considerable blow to cybersecurity efforts. By Michael Daniel, CTA President & CEO Although the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA 2015) was the culmination of more than five years of work, at first…
By Michael Daniel, CTA President & CEO Last spring, I wrote about the need for security companies to communicate responsibly about vulnerabilities in other companies’ security products. In that blog post, I identified three principles that should guide how companies should talk about these vulnerabilities, including…
By Michael Daniel, President & CEO Most people find it surprising that economics and human nature drive most cybersecurity problems, not technical issues. After all, information technology is, well, technical. Yet, when you analyze the root causes for most cyber incidents, very few cyber problems derive from…
By Michael Daniel, CTA President & CEO The September 11th attacks changed our view of physical security. As a result, everyone had to invest more in protecting their people and facilities. At the time I was in charge of the Office of Management and Budget’s Intelligence branch, and…
By Michael Daniel, CTA President & CEO For years, the cybersecurity community argued about how researchers should disclose newly discovered vulnerabilities in information technology products, as well as how companies should handle being told about vulnerabilities in their products. After considerable debate and not a little rancor, the…
By Michael Daniel, CTA President & CEO The start of a new year presents a good opportunity to think strategically. In my case, I have been thinking about how threat intelligence sharing works (or doesn’t) and the role it plays in cybersecurity. We talk a…
By Michael Daniel, CTA President and CEO Today is World More Than a Password Day. Not exactly the best-known day on the global calendar, especially since the Nonprofit Cyber Coalition created it this year. Still, it’s an important concept and many organizations are devoting an entire day to…
By Michael Daniel, CTA President & CEO Yogi Berra once said, “It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” That’s true unless you are making predictions about cyber threats. In that case, you can simply say that tomorrow will be worse than today, and you will almost…