Lessons Learned from Lessons Learned: The Cyber Safety Review Board Can’t Be Voluntary

In this article published by The Project on National Security and Technology, TPO Group CEO Rob Knake looks at what lessons can be learned from the short-lived Cyber Safety Review Board.

Along with almost all other advisory boards at the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump Administration moved quickly to disband the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) in the name of cost savings and government efficiency. Yet the CSRB may not be much dead as it is dormant. The Trump Administration has not rescinded EO 14028, which created the board, and the next major cyber incident, it will face pressure to see the board stood back up under existing authorities. Many have already called to reinstate the board. When that happens, the difficulty of operating an investigative board on a voluntary basis will become all too apparent to the current administration. (more...)