The Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law is a nonprofit (501(c)(6) organization dedicated to improving the cybersecurity ecosystem. The Center hosts several initiatives focusing on a range of critical cybersecurity issues, including the Better Identity Coalition, the Coalition to Reduce Cyber Risk, the Cybersecurity Coalition, the Enterprise Data Center Transparency and Security Initiative, and the Hardware Vulnerability Initiative.

Emergent Issues Initiatives

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Enterprise Data Center Transparency and Security Initiative

Launched in September 2019, the Initiative brought together a range of representatives from industry, civil society, and the government to discuss how advancements in secure network protocols impacts the ability of enterprises to have visibility into the traffic on their networks, alternative technical methods, and options for future research and the development of standards.
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Hardware-Centric Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Practices Initiative

Launched in April 2018, the Initiative brings together key stakeholders from across the technology sector to identify needs and circumstances of the hardware ecosystem, possible gaps in disclosure policy and practice, and options for future improvements.
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Mobile Future: Pathways to Continued Improvement in Mobile Security and Privacy

As cybersecurity experts across the digital economy struggle to keep pace with ever-evolving threats, advancements in mobile security and privacy offer a vision into how security can be done properly while enabling continuous improvement. While new threats to mobile devices continue to arise, the protections in place are generally working better than in other areas of cybersecurity…
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On Demand Assurance

As technologies and our reliance on them develop, both regulators and customers want greater assurances that cloud services are aligned with expectations and desired outcomes regarding security, reliability, and resiliency. Today, these assurances are most often developed and driven from a policy and compliance centric perspective and many of the standards on which compliance relies were created…
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The Future of FedRAMP

The development and release of the white paper brings together business leaders, policymakers and other stakeholders from across the technology sector to identify areas for improvement around the government’s approach to cloud security.
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Vulnerability Management Coalition

On September 13, the Coalition hosted its kickoff Vulnerability Management Workshop featuring speakers from across the spectrum who shared their thoughts on these important issues and discussed how stakeholders could most effectively engage to ensure that vulnerability-related policies and standards are rational and effective.
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