Cybersecurity expert: Who protects American cyberspace?
Jamil Jaffer, founder and executive director at the National Security Institute at the George Mason University Law School, talked to Fox News Digital about the strengths and weaknesses of the American cybersecurity apparatus.
U.S. cybersecurity is more fractured than it might appear, with state and federal authorities handling their own responsibilities while private companies also have to work on their own infrastructure.
“We know that other nation states — China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — are coming after us in the cyber domain,” Jamil Jaffer, founder and executive director at the National Security Institute at the George Mason University Law School, told Fox News Digital.
“We generally expect the government to defend against those kinds of attacks. If a Russian bomber comes across the horizon, nobody says, ‘Hey, you know, Walmart or Target, why didn’t you have surface-to-air missiles on the roof of your…
