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Citi Perspectives for the Public Sector |
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deliver select black box capabilities to the
private sector, and to further develop security
clearance procedures in this space will be
critical to exploiting this powerful tool.
Continued increased communication
between business executives and senior
government officials is essential. We already
have significant experience in public-private
communication to build on. For example,
three days after the 2012 Distributed Denial
of Service attacks on the financial services
industry, the FBI brought together industry
participants, law enforcement, intelligence and
national security officials to quickly establish
Continued increased
communication
between business
executives and senior
government officials
is essential.
communication protocols that have been
extraordinarily effective. The fizzle of the Al
Qassam attacks in part reflects the intensity of
this communication.
It is time for governments and the private
sector to super-charge their collaboration the
way FDR did in the lead up to World War II. It is
the only way to confront the challenges of the
digital world’s cyber threats. This is a call to
action, which begins at home and grows with
deliberately extending cross-border circles of
trust. We can only hope that it will be met with
the same success that we have had at other
times in our nation’s history.
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