During a discussion with NSA and Homeland Security officials on the importance of automating cybersecurity, Philip Quade, special assistant to the director of NSA for cyber, offered an infographic showing the evolution of information sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It starts with sharing information about an incident \u2014\u00a0just that it took place \u2014\u00a0and progresses to how the breach was detected, how the damage was mitigated and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s not just good enough to understand what to look for but what actions you take based on that,” Quade said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sharing information about threat vectors, signatures and new malware is an important aspect of a robust cybersecurity posture for any organization. But too much information is almost as useless as none at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adding automation to the process \u2014\u00a0letting computers do the heavy lifting at machine speed \u2014\u00a0is the answer, according to Quade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“What we’re trying to get to is automated decision making with a human above the loop,” he said. “It’s a robot that’s making the decisions, to take the burden of the minutia off the human being.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vendor space hasn’t quite caught up to that need, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“There are lots of pitchers but not a lot of catchers,” Quade said, with plenty of tools to transmit threat data but few capable of high-level intake and processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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