White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel urged the...

White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel urged the private sector Friday to “work as a community to strengthen our collective defenses to make it harder for those who wish to cause harm.” That collaboration includes differentiating between what the government can do and what the private sector can do to strengthen cybersecurity, he said in a blog post. That differentiation will help both sectors determine how to respond to cyberattacks and “from that understanding would flow the information requirements to take those actions, and it would define who needs to provide what kind of information to whom on what timeline,” Daniel said. The private sector can also collaborate with the Department of Homeland Security to build better networks “that can adapt rapidly based on the threat we jointly face,” he said. Daniel also encouraged the private sector to file comments with the National Institute of Standards and Technology on its use of the Cybersecurity Framework. Comments are due Oct. 10 (http://1.usa.gov/1C6cQyN).