#IBMWoW cognitive solutions for cyber threat analysis and collaboration

I’ll be attending IBM’s World of Watson 2016 in Las Vegas next week. I’m looking forward to hearing whether government and industry are collaborating any better as a result of the passage of The Cybersecurity Act of 2015. The Cyber Act by itself doesn’t really imply (or require) that citizen data (or any other kind of private data) be made accessible across institutions. However, what it does encourage is the sharing of threat or breach data. Given how hard cybersecurity threat comprehension happens to be from a single company viewpoint, I’m eager to learn how we’ll be able to use next generation cognitive type tools for cyber threat analysis across firms or within logical groupings of firms. Some people think that the Federal Government is supposed to lead the fight. But, there’s really no one team that can lead – each type of cyber-crime needs a different leader. For example, educating the public and workers can be led by companies that know how to disseminate information widely. Forensics and post-breach analysis might best be performed by those who know how to conduct investigations while prevention and focusing on pre-breach tasks can be led by law enforcement groups. Cyber-crime is complex and unless we break down the complexity into manageable chunks it will seem like a daunting task. The government’s role should to help in educating, galvanizing the best and brightest, and establishing the ecosystem to help deploy cyber-crime-fighters. The government...
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