About the Speaker
Michael Daniel | President & CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA)
Talk
Measurement Matters in Cybersecurity
Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink. That quote from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner aptly describes the situation with cyber metrics: we are awash in data yet have trouble measuring cybersecurity, particularly at the national level. This talk will discuss this long-standing problem and how national governments could address it. The discussion will cover what makes for good metrics, which ones would be both informative and practical in the cybersecurity context, and how decision-makers could use them to inform choices at the national level. It will also lay out some good news for cyber defenders when you start looking at some the proposed metrics. While measuring cybersecurity precisely may be impossible, metrics can make national decision-making processes better.
Michael Daniel serves as the President & CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), a not-for-profit that enables high-quality cyber threat information sharing among cybersecurity organizations. Prior to CTA, Michael served for four years as US Cybersecurity Coordinator, leading US cybersecurity policy development, overseeing US government partnerships with the private sector and other nations, and managing significant incident response activities.
From 1995 to 2012, Michael worked for the Office of Management and Budget, overseeing the U.S. Intelligence Community. Michael also works with the Aspen Cyber Group, the World Economic Forum, and other organizations improving cybersecurity in the digital ecosystem. In his spare time, he enjoys running and martial arts.
About Cyber Threat Alliance
The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization that is working to improve the cybersecurity of our global digital ecosystem by enabling near real-time, high-quality cyber threat information sharing among companies and organizations in the cybersecurity field. We take a three-pronged approach to this mission:
- Protect End-Users: Our automated platform empowers members to share, validate, and deploy actionable threat intelligence to their customers in near-real time.
- Disrupt Malicious Actors: We share threat intelligence to reduce the effectiveness of malicious actors’ tools and infrastructure.
- Elevate Overall Security: We share intelligence to improve our members’ abilities to respond to cyber incidents and increase end-user’s resilience.
CTA is continuing to grow on a global basis, enriching both the quantity and quality of the information that is being shared amongst its membership. CTA is actively recruiting additional cybersecurity providers to enhance our information sharing and operational collaboration to enable a more secure future for all.
For more information about the Cyber Threat Alliance, please visit www.cyberthreatalliance.org.