Security News > 2022 > June > US cyber chiefs: Moving to Shields Down isn't gonna happen

A heightened state of defensive cyber security posture is the new normal, according to federal cyber security chiefs speaking at the RSA Conference on Tuesday.

"There'll never be a time when we don't defend ourselves - especially in cyberspace," National Cyber Director Chris Inglis said, referencing an opinion piece that he and CISA director Jen Easterly published earlier this week that described CISA's Shields Up initiative as the new normal.

The government officials pointed to CISA's Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative public-private group for sharing threat data and security skills and NSA's Cybersecurity Collaboration Center that works with the defense industry as examples of what successful cyber collaborations look like.

In addition to rethinking the relationship between the private and public sectors, CISA is also mulling an advisory framework that describes the cyber threat level, Easterly said.

CISA issued the Shields Up warning about the Russian invasion of Ukraine potentially spilling over into cyber offensives against the US earlier this year.

To date, we haven't seen any major incidents against US targets - at least none that we know of.

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