What’s needed now? Trustwave cyber leader says more collaboration, security standards in contracts

CHICAGO. More information sharing and better collaboration between industries, along with government using its contracting power to drive up security performance, are among the chief policy needs in the cyber space, according to Jeremy Batterman, who leads cyber firm Trustwave’s SpiderLabs Fusion Center here.

And, Batterman said in an interview at Trustwave’s offices, “we need education campaigns. The tools are out there … Evangelizing this kind of information would be great, coming from a leadership perspective in both government and...