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3 results foundAuthor: U.S. Federal Communications Commission Title: Cybersecurity Risk Reduction Summary: Cybersecurity is a top priority for the Commission. The rapid growth of network-connected consumer devices creates particular cybersecurity challenges. The Commission's oversight of our country's privately owned and managed communications networks is an important component of the larger effort to protect critical communications infrastructure and the American public from malicious cyber actors. The Commission is uniquely situated to comprehensively address this issue given its authority over the use of radio spectrum as well as the connections to, and interconnections between, commercial networks, which touch virtually every aspect of our economy. Other agencies have also begun looking at network-connected devices and the security implications they bring in certain industry segments. The Commission's rules include obligations for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to take measures to protect their networks from harmful interconnected devices. These rules make clear that providers not only have the latitude to take actions to protect consumers from harm, but have the responsibility to do so. Reasonable network management must include practices to ensure network security and integrity, including by "addressing traffic harmful to the network," such as denial of service attacks. The Public Safety and Homeland Security’s (PSHSB or Bureau) cybersecurity initiatives build upon FCC rules that have, for decades, effectively evolved to balance security, privacy, and innovation within the telecommunications market. The U.S. telecommunications market leads the world as a consequence of this light touch, but surgical, approach. Commission staff actively work with stakeholders to address cyber challenges presented by today's end-to-end Internet environment. This environment is vastly different and more challenging than the legacy telecommunications security environment that preceded it. Today insecure devices, connected through wireless networks, have shut down service to millions of customers by attacking critical control utilities neither licensed nor directly regulated by the Commission. These attacks highlight that security vulnerabilities inherent in devices attached to networks now can have large-scale impacts. As the end-to-end Internet user experience continues to expand and diversify, the Commission's ability to reduce cyber risk for individuals and businesses will continue to be taxed. But shifting this risk oversight responsibility to a non-regulatory body would not be good policy. It would be resource intensive and ultimately drive dramatic federal costs and still most certainly fail to address the risk for over 30,000 communications service providers and their vendor base. The Commission must address these cyber challenges to protect consumers using telecommunications networks. Cyber risk crosses corporate and national boundaries, making it imperative that private sector leadership in the communications sector step up its responsibility and accountability for cyber risk reduction. In this vein, the Commission has worked closely with its Federal Advisory Committees (FAC), as well as with its federal partners and other stakeholders, to foster standards and best practices for cyber risk reduction. The Commission worked with the other regulatory agencies to create a forum whereby agency principals share best regulatory practices and coordinate our approaches for reducing cybersecurity risk. A rich body of recommendations, including voluntary best practices, is the result. Industry implementation of these practices must be part of any effort to reduce cybersecurity risk. The Commission, however cannot rely solely on organic market incentives to reduce cyber risk in the communications sector. As private actors, ISPs operate in economic environments that pressure against investments that do not directly contribute to profit. Protective actions taken by one ISP can be undermined by the failure of other ISPs to take similar actions. This weakens the incentive of all ISPs to invest in such protections. Cyber-accountability therefore requires a combination of market-based incentives and appropriate regulatory oversight where the market does not, or cannot, do the job effectively. PSHSB has developed a portfolio of programs to address cybersecurity risk in the telecommunications sector in a responsible manner. These initiatives include collaborative efforts with key Internet stakeholder groups; increased interagency cooperation; and regulatory solutions to address residual risks that are unlikely to be addressed by market forces alone. This white paper describes the risk reduction portfolio of the current Commission and suggests actions that would continue to affirmatively reduce cyber risk in a manner that incents competition, protects consumers, and reduces significant national security risks. Details: Washington, dC: Federal Communications Commission, 2017. 56p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 11, 2017 at: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0118/DOC-343096A1.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0118/DOC-343096A1.pdf Shelf Number: 145022 Keywords: CybercrimeCybersecurityInternet CrimeInternet SecuritySupply ChainsTelecommunications |
Author: Gibson, Craig Title: Cyber-Telecom Crime Report Summary: Telecommunications or telecom is a field that continues to evolve and broaden in response to advancements in technology and the changing demands of society, as manifested in its expanding role and impact on the internet of things and the evolution of wireless technologies to 5G. Telecom carrier networks are also poised to become content delivery networks (CDNs), for example, to allow users to load more internet content and transmit data at faster rates. We need such developments to continue since telecom, after all, influences how well we do business, provide services, broadcast information, and many other facets of modern life. As telecom broadens in scope, so too should our understanding of it. And a good place to start is its threat landscape, which expanded with the growth and evolution of telecom technology. Telecom-related threats exist largely because money is closely tied with telecom operations. Users pay for their telecom services. Going online, making a call, sending a message - all have set monetary values depending on the user's chosen carrier. This direct link to money is something that draws attackers who perhaps want to profit directly from the system or use it to launder their criminal revenue. An in-depth and comprehensive discussion on components of and threats to telecom can be read in our joint report with Europol's Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the Cyber-Telecom (CyTel) Crime Report 2019. Here, we highlight and summarize some of the telecom-related threats that we categorized into two: those facilitated through physical telecom infrastructure, and those that are network-based. Details: Hague, The Netherlands: European Union Agency for Law Enforcement, 2019. 57p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 30, 2019 at: https://documents.trendmicro.com/assets/white_papers/wp-cyber-telecom-crime-report-2019.pdf Year: 2019 Country: Europe URL: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/internet-of-things/global-telecom-crime-undermining-internet-security-cyber-telecom-crime-report Shelf Number: 156096 Keywords: Cyber-Crime Cybercrime Europol Cybercrime Centre (EC3) Internet Crime Technology and Crime Telecommunications |
Author: Petrie, Elizabeth M. Title: Sharing Insider Threat Indicators: Examining the Potential Use of Swift's Messaging Platform to Combat Cyber Fraud Summary: Cyber actors are operating under a shared services model giving them access to infrastructure, tools, targets and the ability to monetise their exploits. As a result, organisations across industries must enhance communication channels to share threat information in order to pre-empt cyber fraud schemes. This requires both an ability to identify the patterns of behaviour that indicate cyber fraud activity is occurring and a platform for communicating potential threat information. The report "Sharing Insider Threat Indicators: Leveraging SWIFT's Messaging Platform to Combat Cyber Fraud" focuses on identifying the patterns of behaviour typically indicative of efforts by criminals to use insiders to cash out on fraudulent activity. The objective of this research is to explore the potential for organisations to use an existing telecommunication platform, such as SWIFT, to communicate cyber fraud threat information by establishing indicators of cashout behaviour, which could warn of cyber fraud activity. Details: London: Swift Institute, 2017. 33p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 27, 2019 at: https://swiftinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SIWP_2016-003_Insider_Cashout_Citi_American_University_final.pdf Year: 2017 Country: International URL: https://swiftinstitute.org/research/sharing-threat-indicators-of-cyber-fraud-via-intelligence-information-reports/ Shelf Number: 156723 Keywords: Cyber FraudCyber SecurityCybercrimeFinancial CrimeTelecommunications |