Edward Swallow
Vice President, Business Development, Civil Systems Division and Lead for Civil Cyber, Northrop Grumman Information Systems

A couple of the large ISPs have built very effective security operations with integrated situational awareness, out-of-band communications across mission management, and a mindset that assumes the bad guy is inside the perimeter. Northrop Grumman has been a recognized leader in this area with our Consolidated Cyber Security Operations Center in Maryland and our holistic, integrated approach to security management. We take a unique, multi-disciplinary approach that includes integrating policies, technology, economics, legal, information sharing, and human factors to address the major threats. The public-private partnerships that are gaining strength and popularity are a great venue for sharing best practices and strengthening everyone’s cybersecurity.

John Bordwine
Public Sector CTO, Symantec

You have seen a lot of the information that has come out; we have talked about the increased amount of malware that is being found today. So this really has created a major increase in the number of signatures – information that is being used that identifies malware and is required to block the malware attacks. There is a large number of attacks in there. This is really not the way to handle this moving forward, because we want to reduce the impact of trying to create more and more scanning that goes on in the system from malware. But we still need to maintain a very strong security model.