Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure

Abstract

The President directed a 60-day, comprehensive, "clean-slate" review to assess U.S. policies and structures for cybersecurity. Cybersecurity policy includes strategy, policy, and standards regarding the security of and operations in cyberspace, and encompasses the full range of threat reduction, vulnerability reduction, deterrence, international engagement, incident response, resiliency, and recovery policies and activities, including computer network operations, information assurance, law enforcement, diplomacy, military, and intelligence missions as they relate to the security and stability of the global information and communications infrastructure. The scope does not include other information and communications policy unrelated to national security or securing the infrastructure. The review team of government cybersecurity experts engaged and received input from a broad cross-section of industry, academia, the civil liberties and privacy communities, State governments, international partners, and the Legislative and Executive Branches. This paper summarizes the review team's conclusions and outlines the beginning of the way forward towards a reliable, resilient, trustworthy digital infrastructure for the future. The Nation is at a crossroads.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA501541

Entities

Organizations

  • Executive Office of the President of the United States

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Congress
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Government Procurement
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • Interagency Coordination
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Economics
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Cyber