Jeremy Straub, assistant professor of computer science, NDSU Cybersecurity Institute director and Challey Institute faculty fellow, was recently published on Scholars Strategy Network.
“Cybersecurity Incidents can be unwelcome wakeup calls for unprepared agencies,” was published on March 18 in the website’s foreign policy and security section.
In his brief, Straub describes the implications of a cyber-Pearl Harbor event for agencies. He also details how agencies can prepare for and respond to this type of an incident. The work draws from his previous article on this topic, which was published in Elsevier’s Technology in Society.
Strong cybersecurity practices are key to avoiding incidents happening in the first place. However, Straub suggests that agencies should prepare for incident response. This includes avoiding activities that could be seen as covert or nefarious and cannot be explained by their mission, preparing for inevitable breaches to occur, treating every record like it might end up in the public’s hands and actively communicating with the public about their mission, methods and tactics.
Straub is the first faculty member from NDSU to be included in SSN’s network of America’s top scholars.
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