The Register has an interview with former White House advisor Michael Daniel.
Uncle Sam’s cybersecurity apparatus can’t only focus on China and other nation-state actors, but also has to fight the much bigger damage from plain old cybercrime, says former White House advisor Michael Daniel. And the Trump administration’s steep cuts to federal government staff are making that a lot harder.
Daniel currently leads the Cyber Threat Alliance, a nonprofit threat-intel-sharing organization. Before he took that role, he served as special assistant to President Obama and cybersecurity coordinator on the National Security Council staff between 2012 and 2017.
He agrees that China poses the single greatest threat we face in cyberspace, surpassing the Russians. But they’re far from the only threat.
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