Walden emphasizes ‘thoughtful’ regulation, amplifies federal message on cyber workforce building

LAS VEGAS. Acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden described cyber regulation as “another tool” while emphasizing it should be applied in a flexible manner and in collaboration with the affected industries, in a presentation at the Def Con conference that also leaned heavily into a pitch for building the federal cyber workforce.

“There are a lot of tools and regulation is another tool,” Walden said Friday during an onstage discussion with Def Con founder Jeff Moss. “We need to do...