Promoting Cyber Interoperability: The Path Forward

02/04/20 • 11 min

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In recent years, the number and variety of cybersecurity products and services has grown rapidly. One survey found that organizations use an average of 47 different cybersecurity tools across their networks. This has created challenges for organizations, who can find it difficult to make all of these different products interoperable. What could help would be a common set of standards, protocols, taxonomies, and open source code that can tie these cybersecurity tools together. This event will examine the progress of efforts to develop standards such as the Open Cybersecurity Alliance, and ask what the federal government and private firms can do to help advance interoperability.

This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.

This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.

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In November 2018, the Department of Justice unveiled the China Initiative, which was established to fulfill the Department’s strategic priority of confronting national security threats presented by the People’s Republic of China, with a particular emphasis placed on the policies and practices that seek to challenge U.S. technological and scientific leadership. This half-day event brings together high-level officials from the U.S. government, private industry and academia, to discuss the most timely and relevant issues regarding the Department of Justice’s efforts to counter this economic malfeasance.

Agenda
8:00 am — Welcome by James Lewis, CSIS, and John Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security

8:05 am — Opening remarks by Christopher Wray, FBI Director

8:25 am — Threat Briefing by William Evanina, Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center

8:45 am — China case overview

Adam Hickey, Deputy Assistant Attorney General
John Brown, Assistant Director, Counterintelligence Division, FBI

9:05 am — U.S. Attorney Panel – “The China Initiative”

Moderated by Brian Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
Jay Town, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama
Andrew Lelling, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
Richard Donoghue, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas

9:45 am — Break

10:00 am — Keynote address by William Barr, U.S. Attorney General

10:30 am — Industry Experience Panel

Moderated by Aruna Viswanatha, Wall Street Journal Justice Department Correspondent
William Zarit, The Cohen Group
Jeremie Waterman, President, China Center, Vice President, Greater China, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
John Neuffer, President and CEO, Semiconductor Industry Association
John Carlin, Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security

11:20 am — Academic Experience Panel