A Cyberspace Odyssey

<p class="x_MsoNormal">Americans must be prepared to defend themselves from hostile armies, navies, air forces – and, not least, soldiers in cyberspace.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">With that in mind, in 2019, Congress created the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, the CSC. Its mission: “to develop a strategic approach to defending the United States in cyberspace against cyber-attacks of significant consequences.”</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">The CSC operated successfully for two and a half years, publishing its <a href='https://cybersolarium.org/march-2020-csc-report/march-2020-csc-report/'>flagship report</a> in March 2020. It issued more than 80 recommendations to reform U.S. government structures and organization, promote national resilience, operationalize public-private collaboration, and preserve and employ military instruments of national power. Many of those recommendations have been implemented — but not all.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">At the CSC’s planned sunset, the commissioners launched "<a href='https://cybersolarium.org/'>CSC 2.0</a>" to support the implementation of outstanding recommendations, provide annual assessments of progress, and conduct further research and analysis on cybersecurity issues.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">It’s a critical project because there are still many gaping holes in America’s cyberspace defense capabilities.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">To better understand what is being done and what still must be done to defeat this evolving threat, host Cliff May is joined by <a href='https://www.fdd.org/team/radm-ret-mark-montgomery/'>RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery</a> — former executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, now senior director of <a href='https://www.fdd.org/team/fdds-center-on-cyber-and-technology-innovation/'>FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, CCTI</a>, which houses “<a href='https://cybersolarium.org/'>CSC 2.0</a>” — and <a href='https://www.fdd.org/team/jiwon-ma/'>Jiwon Ma</a>, a program analyst at CCTI, where she focuses on this new project. </p> <