OBAMA’S CYBER PROPOSALS SOUND GOOD, BUT ERODE INFORMATION SECURITY

If Obama wants to address the problem behind the most notorious recent cyberhacks, he could call attention to what appears to have been their common problem, says Robyn Greene, policy counsel at New America’s Open Technology Institute. The recent Sony Pictures breach and others were “the results of poor cyber hygiene; they weren’t the result of poor information sharing,” she says. “It would be really good if part of the debate about cybersecurity focused more on what are the easy and practical things that people and companies can do to enhance their cybersecurity.”