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Inside Cybersecurity Features John Carlin Panel on Opportunities for Government to Improve Cyber Resilience
April 29, 2025
Cybersecurity & Data Protection Practice Group Co-Chair John Carlin was featured in an Inside Cybersecurity article on his recent panel at RSA 2025, the world’s premier cybersecurity conference. The article, “Former DOJ cyber official Carlin identifies legal gaps in building cyber resilience,” published on April 29, describes the areas John identified during the panel as opportunities for the government to deepen its work on building cyber resilience. These include increasing diligence around cyber products coming from nation states, providing additional tactical information to corporations to help mitigate operational impact and national security concerns during a cyberattack, and improving deterrence.
“Just to put it bluntly, [corporations] know having their business knocked out by a nation state actor is bad. They are incentivized to try to prevent it from happening. They don't know how to prevent it from happening with the nation state, they don't know the right steps to take and often it's quite sophisticated,” John is quoted as saying. “And that means going in with very tactical information, either through the private sector vendors or directly from the government.”
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