TOMATION TO ST THREATS
WRITTEN BY : VIKKI DAVIES
The US government ’ s cyber defence agency , CISA , recently recommended for the first time that companies embrace automated continuous testing to protect against longstanding online threats . The guidance urged businesses to up their defences by continually validating their security programme against known threat behaviours , rather than taking a more gradual approach .
A CISA spokesman said : “ Enabling automation is a critical component of every organisation that wishes to address the speed and scale of modern cyber attack . Without orchestrated automated response , it is often not possible to respond to cyber threat intelligence in a timeframe that enables network defence . However , organisations often find themselves struggling to orchestrate existing manual processes .”
The announcement is part of a raft of cybersecurity measures that the US Government has put in place to alert of the cybersecurity risks in the current climate . In 2022 the Department of Homeland Security requested a total of 2.6 billion dollars for its entire cybersecurity budget , making it the largest budget among the government agencies , excluding the Department of Defense . And this is only set to rise . Overall cyber security spending in the United States is projected to increase in 2023 with the total proposed agency cyber security funding for that year amounting to US $ 10.46bn dollars .
Representing one of the largest digital populations worldwide , the United States reports a considerable number of cyber attacks each year . According to a 2021 survey , nearly 60 % of online users in the country had experienced a cyberattack , ranking it the third country worldwide by share of cybercrime . In the most recent reported year , around 294 million internet users in the United States were impacted by incidents of data violation . Network intrusion was the most common type of cyberattack across the country . cybermagazine . com 39