It’s time for a National Cybersecurity Safety Board (NCSB)

  • 19 February 2015
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Interesting article and probably a good idea if it pulls all the info into one place.
 
Feb 19, 2015  By Ben Rothke
 "With regards to information security, the Sony breach of 2014 shows that the time has arrived to create a National Cybersecurity Safety Board (NCSB). The debacle of the FBI prematurely attributing the attack to the North Korean government is still causing embarrassment, especially to information security professionals who note that attribution, and determination of root cause and probable cause, takes time to determine.

As for the NTSB, in 1967, Congress established the NTSB as an independent agency placed within the Department of Transportation (DOT). Based on that, the NCSB would likely be placed within the Department of Commerce, Federal Trade Commission or most likely the Department of Homeland Security.

In creating the NTSB, Congress envisioned that a single organization with a clearly defined mission could more effectively promote a higher level of safety in the transportation system than the individual modal agencies working separately." Full Article

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