Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response , ISMG Security Report

The Man Behind the Cybersecurity 'Moonshot'

Also, Bipartisan Senate Bill Aims to Secure Electoral Process
The Man Behind the Cybersecurity 'Moonshot'
Sam Visner, director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center

Exploring Samuel Visner's vision - patterned after the Manhattan Project and moonshot - for collaborating to create innovative ways to improve cybersecurity leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Visner is the new director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center, an affiliate of NIST and the MITRE Corp.

Also in the Security Report (click on player beneath image to listen), you'll hear about legislation introduced in the Senate that's designed to help protect U.S. elections from cyberattacks.

The ISMG Security Report appears on this and other ISMG websites on Tuesdays and Fridays. Check out our Dec. 19 and Dec. 22 editions, which respectively analyze cyber's role in the new national security strategy and North Korea's involvement in the WannaCry ransomware attack.

The next ISMG Security Report will be posted on Friday, Dec. 29.

Theme music for the ISMG Security Report is by Ithaca Audio under a Creative Commons license.




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