From: Tech Page One
October has been designated Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and it started with an appeal from the Obama administration for closer collaboration with businesses on cyber threats.
By Kenneth Corbin
WASHINGTON – The government and business communities haven’t always been comrades in arms in cyberspace, but officials in both sectors say that public and private organizations need to better coordinate to address the evolving digital threats to critical infrastructure.
October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an occasion Jay Healey, director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, greeted with a stark warning.
“We’ve been losing. We’ve been losing every step of the way. We are still losing today,” Healey said at an event hosted by the Information Technology Industry Council and the law firm King and Spalding. “If anything, the bad guys are continuing to pull away from us.”
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