ISF Podcast3 Dec 2024

S31 Ep1: Why Cyber Security Deserves a Place in the Political Spotlight

In today’s episode, journalist Nick Witchell speaks with Steve about the coming Trump administration will mean for businesses. In the first part of their two-part discussion, Steve and Nick consider potential changes to the US approach to tech regulation and foreign policy.

Key Takeaways:

The fact that cyber security wasn’t part of Donald Trump’s campaign, doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t be a focus of his presidency.
Election interference is about misinformation as much (if not more) as it is about hackers getting into voting systems.
Government must collaborate with private sector to create meaningful policies around digital security.

Tune in to hear more about:

Expectations and hopes for the Trump administration’s approach to cyber security (2:35)
Regulation of social media (6:51)
The importance of cooperation between government and private sector (11:43)

Standout Quotes:

“If we look at some of the initiatives that he [Donald Trump] has in place around, for instance, immigration, then cybersecurity is fairly core and central to some of these programs and plans, because anything that involves technology, of course, also involves cybersecurity. So I think that that's the way we're going to start seeing cyber coming into his perspective on the world. Where it touches some of his other frontline policies, then we're going to see it playing a role.” - Steve Durbin
“As soon as you implement technology without security, you're creating a huge problem for yourself further down the road; one which, unless you have invested ahead of time, is going to cost you a horrible amount of money to try to fix later.” - Steve Durbin
“You need to have people in government who've actually been there and done it, because if you haven't, then where do you begin? And so I'd like to see a lot more collaboration between government and private sector in terms of getting a lot more knowledge, frontline knowledge, into some of the things that you absolutely must do to secure this technology, rather than simply deciding that that's the way we're going to go and then leaving it up to the different departments to figure things out.” - Steve Durbin

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