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Semi-official. I'm in a student status so it's a personal research project but under the aegis of a government institute. Presidential Policy Directive 21 is w
by mpyne 13y ago
Semi-official. I'm in a student status so it's a personal research project but under the aegis of a government institute.
Presidential Policy Directive 21 is where the White House tries to set policy and agency "swim lanes" for critical civilian infrastructure (including cyber). Reading it is amazing just seeing the number of agencies that are involved in some fashion with IT/cyber/etc.
DHS themselves handle this function under the term "Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource" (CIKR) support.
There's also various national strategy documents relating to cyberspace.
As for the military side DoD has a bunch of strategies as well. Anything operational or tactical is probably classified but you can certainly Google for "DoD Instruction" + cyber (and likewise for "DoD Directive") and find their public governing policies.
The problem of ensuring there is a formal way for government to work together with private entities to secure cyberspace was intended to be fixed by the CISPA law that had been proposed in Congress but as I mentioned that had issues (some real, some a "taint" from SOPA/PIPA). AFAIK there is still no clarity here, and the White House can't simply give out a dictat via Executive Order for all of this.