Cybersecurity

Former Director Of NSA And CIA Says US Cybersecurity Policy MIA

Gen. Michael Hayden called for private industry, not the US government, to take the lead in protecting data and the power grid from attacks by nation-states or terror groups.

"People ask how come government isn't doing something about it … Government will be permanently late to the need in providing cybersecurity," said Hayden, who delivered the keynote address and later spoke with reporters here at the S4x16 ICS/SCADA conference.

Technology moves much faster than government and politics, he said. "We have not decided what we would allow government to do to keep us safe. We've not even laid the groundwork" for defending against such attacks, he said.