Company
Date Published
Author
Casey Ellis
Word count
681
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The White House has released its National Cybersecurity Strategy, which emphasizes crowdsourced security as a key solution to address the growing threat of cyber attacks on the US government and private sector. The strategy promotes regular testing and exercising of cybersecurity and resilience during development using best practices from forward-leaning industries, including coordinated vulnerability disclosure and crowd-sourced testing. The US government recognizes its enormous attack surface and resource shortage in cybersecurity, and is adopting more creative approaches to solving these problems. The release comes after the House Homeland Security Committee advanced bipartisan bills that would force the Department of Homeland Security to initiate a crowdsourced security approach through bug bounty programs and vulnerability disclosure. The strategy also highlights the importance of risk management, innovation, and collaboration with the global community of white hat hackers.