The Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies will deal with cybersecurity issues as part of US foreign policy.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced plans to create a new structure within the Department of State that will deal with cybersecurity issues within the framework of US foreign policy. The new structure will be called the Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies (CSET).
"The CSET Bureau will lead the US government's diplomatic efforts to address a wide range of international cyberspace security and emerging technology issues affecting US foreign policy and national security, including securing cyberspace and critical technologies, reducing the likelihood of cyber conflict, and dominating strategic cyber competition." according to a statement by the US State Department.
The first attempts to create a bureau began in June 2019. It was supposed to replace the old administration that dealt with the regulation of cybersecurity policies within the framework of US foreign policy and was eliminated during the reorganization in 2017, when Rex Tillerson was the US Secretary of State.
“The question of the need to reorganize and supply diplomacy in the field of cyberspace security of America and new technologies through the creation of CSET is critical, since the challenge to US national security from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and other competitors and adversaries in the field of cybernetic and other new technologies only has increased since the Department notified Congress of its intention to create a CSET in June 2019, ”the US Department of State said.
However, according to former State Department cybersecurity coordinator Christopher Painter, the decision to create a CSET now, after four years of lack of interest, is "ludicrous." Painter cited a recent report from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and the US Cyber Diplomacy Act calling for the integration of any higher-level cybersecurity-related efforts with the Department of State's foreign policy. These efforts should be coordinated with other US federal agencies, and not be associated with any one department or bureau.
The first attempt to create a CSET in 2019 was halted on the same basis, when the former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives, Eliot Engel, argued that cybersecurity should play a large role in US foreign policy and be monitored by senior officials within the Department of State. not a bureau.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced plans to create a new structure within the Department of State that will deal with cybersecurity issues within the framework of US foreign policy. The new structure will be called the Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies (CSET).
"The CSET Bureau will lead the US government's diplomatic efforts to address a wide range of international cyberspace security and emerging technology issues affecting US foreign policy and national security, including securing cyberspace and critical technologies, reducing the likelihood of cyber conflict, and dominating strategic cyber competition." according to a statement by the US State Department.
The first attempts to create a bureau began in June 2019. It was supposed to replace the old administration that dealt with the regulation of cybersecurity policies within the framework of US foreign policy and was eliminated during the reorganization in 2017, when Rex Tillerson was the US Secretary of State.
“The question of the need to reorganize and supply diplomacy in the field of cyberspace security of America and new technologies through the creation of CSET is critical, since the challenge to US national security from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and other competitors and adversaries in the field of cybernetic and other new technologies only has increased since the Department notified Congress of its intention to create a CSET in June 2019, ”the US Department of State said.
However, according to former State Department cybersecurity coordinator Christopher Painter, the decision to create a CSET now, after four years of lack of interest, is "ludicrous." Painter cited a recent report from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and the US Cyber Diplomacy Act calling for the integration of any higher-level cybersecurity-related efforts with the Department of State's foreign policy. These efforts should be coordinated with other US federal agencies, and not be associated with any one department or bureau.
The first attempt to create a CSET in 2019 was halted on the same basis, when the former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives, Eliot Engel, argued that cybersecurity should play a large role in US foreign policy and be monitored by senior officials within the Department of State. not a bureau.
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