Transforming U.S. National Cyber Strategy for Threats and Opportunities Ahead

Abstract: Chris Inglis will describe the rationale underpinning the March 2023 U.S. National Cybersecurity strategy. He will begin by describing the role cyberspace plays in activities ranging from personal, business, and national security applications, then describe the U.S. government's views on emerging roles across the public and private sector, and finally provide a summary of the attendant strategy that is now being implemented by the US government. The strategy calls for two transformational changes in how the U.S. addresses cybersecurity. The first is an emerging requirement for those who develop and produce cyber related systems to take on responsibility for basic resilience and robustness in those systems. The second will be to incentivize security by design, moving away from the after-market, reactionary, strategies that have characterized much of the past 40 years.

Bio: Chris Inglis served as the inaugural Senate confirmed U.S. National Cyber Director (2021-2023), as a Commissioner on the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission (2019-2020), and for eight years as the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the National Security Agency (2006-2014). During the period 2014 – 2021, he served as the Looker Professor of Cyber Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy, as a principal at Paladin Capital, as a member of the Department of Defense Science Board, as a member of the U.S. Strategic Command Advisory Board, as a member of the Penn State Advanced Research Lab advisory board, as a Trustee of the National Intelligence University, and as a member of several private and public Boards of Directors, to include ANSER, FedEx, Huntington Bank, SECURONIX, Trinity Cyber Solutions, Blackpoint, and ELBIT. Mr. Inglis holds advanced degrees in engineering and computer science from Columbia University, the Johns Hopkins University, and the George Washington University and has served on the faculties of both the U.S. Naval and Military (West Point) Academies.