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The National Security Implications of New Rules of the Road for Cyber

The National Security Implications of New Rules of the Road for Cyber

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EXPERT PERSPECTIVEThe Cyber Initiatives Group (powered by The Cipher Brief) filed national security-related comments in support of the SEC’s proposed rules regarding Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure by Public Companies this week.  The official filing is below.

Commenters, led by former National Security Agency General Counsel Glenn Gerstell, include Kelly Bissell, Global Security Services Lead, Microsoft Corporation, HON. Sue Gordon, former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Matt Hayden, former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk and Resilience, GEN Michael Hayden (Ret.), former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, HON. S. Leslie Ireland, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis, Richard H. Ledgett, Jr., former Deputy Director, National Security Agency, RADM Mark Montgomery (Ret.), former Executive Director Cyberspace Solarium Commission and Debora Plunkett, former Director of the Information Assurance Directorate of the National Security Agency. 

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