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Cybersecurity Task Force To Advise Next Administration

Wednesday, July 29th, 2015

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The Center for Strategic and International Security (CSIS) is convening the second iteration of a Cyber Policy Task Force to advise the next presidential administration on cybersecurity recommendations it can implement within the first 60 to 100 days.The previous group, the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, released its report in December 2008. Established in August 2007, it was tasked “to examine existing plans and strategies and to assess what a new administration should continue, what it should…

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