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“Not Afraid” to Call Out Big Tech Security Fails, says CISA Director

CISA director Jen Easterly says the US Cybersecurity Safety Review Board (CSRB) “is not afraid to say when something is amiss” in response to questions about the future of private sector collaboration following the board’s scathing report on Microsoft.

Asked whether she believed companies would still cooperate with the CSRB if it wanted to probe a serious security mishap, in light of the criticism that faced Microsoft, Easterly said: “I would hope so.”

Back in March, the CSRB published a lengthy report after it worked with Microsoft to understand how a break-in at Exchange Online that led to the compromise of senior US officials’ email accounts at the hands of a Chinese state-sponsored group came to pass.

Read the rest of the story at The Register.

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