Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Internet security company Kaspersky Lab, has used his blog praised an executive order on cybersecurity by President Obama intended to ensure better information sharing between government and the private sector.
Kaspersky called the order, which focuses on a risk-based approach, a positive step towards addressing the significant gap in the protection of “critical assets necessary to the well-being of the United States”.
The order entails the development of a voluntary cyber framework and standards to better secure the US infrastructure as more sophisticated threats have been reported to be targeting US companies.
According to Kaspersky, cyber security is a real problem internationally which must be addressed jointly by the private sector and governments.
“As we see more threats to the national and economic security of countries, action must be taken to better protect critical national infrastructure. Attacks like stuxnet, Flame, Gauss and shamoon are becoming commonplace and keep growing in sophistication,” he stated.
He added the order will make it easier to share information with operators of critical infrastructure working hard to implement flexible performance-based standards to secure their assets.
The order comes weeks after the European Union developed regulations to make it mandatory for business in its jurisdictions to report incidences of cyber attacks to the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
EU’s strategy is aimed at developing a cyber defence policy and capabilities enabling the central agency ENISA to remain on top of issues on the growth and advancements of attacks.
Just this week, hackers have targeted two US companies Jeep and Burger King, with a number of media houses having also been hacked and China and East European hacking organisations suspected of carrying out the attacks.
In Africa a number of countries, including, Mali, Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia, have fallen victim to the Gauss and Stuxnet. A number of countries in Africa are also working on their cybersecurity infrastructure and policies, with Kenya for example in the process of putting together its cybersecurity master plan.
Kaspersky called the order, which focuses on a risk-based approach, a positive step towards addressing the significant gap in the protection of “critical assets necessary to the well-being of the United States”.
The order entails the development of a voluntary cyber framework and standards to better secure the US infrastructure as more sophisticated threats have been reported to be targeting US companies.
According to Kaspersky, cyber security is a real problem internationally which must be addressed jointly by the private sector and governments.
“As we see more threats to the national and economic security of countries, action must be taken to better protect critical national infrastructure. Attacks likestuxnet, Flame, Gauss and shamoon are becoming commonplace and keep growing in sophistication,” he stated.
He added the order will make it easier to share information with operators of critical infrastructure working hard to implement flexible performance-based standards to secure their assets.
The order comes weeks after the European Union developed regulations to make it mandatory for business in its jurisdictions to report incidences of cyber attacks to the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
