CIS’ Tony Sager: New Community Defense Model emphasizes value in basic steps on cyber hygiene

The Center for Internet Security is emphasizing the “universal nature” of cyber challenges as it offers a new Community Defense Model, showing that “a prioritized and prescriptive set of safeguards” is successful in fending off the most prevalent cyber attacks, according to CIS Senior Vice President and Chief Evangelist Tony Sager.

“We’re all on the same networks, using the same technologies, so there’s an opportunity for combined understanding and action,” Sager told Inside Cybersecurity. “If 90 percent is commonality, let’s...