Stewart Baker’s Cybersecurity Report Garners Significant Media Coverage

Steptoe partner Stewart Baker, who has formerly served as Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security and General Counsel of the National Security Agency, serves as a highly respected counselor on issues of national security, electronic surveillance, law enforcement, export control encryption, and related technology issues. Based on his substantial experience in cybersecurity, Mr. Baker was tapped to author a report commissioned by McAfee, Inc. and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), of which Mr. Baker is a distinguished visiting fellow. The report, titled “In the Crossfire: Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Cyber War,” was released on January 28 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and surveyed 600 IT and security executives in enterprises that own or operate critical infrastructure in 14 countries around the world. The executives surveyed said that their IT networks are under repeated cyber–attack, often by high–level adversaries such as nation–states, organized crime gangs, or terror groups. The survey data gathered for the report paints a detailed picture of the way those charged with the defense of critical IT networks are responding to cyber–attacks.

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The report received significant media coverage and Mr. Baker, the former assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, was quoted extensively. Media reports include:

• Study Finds Growing Fear of Cyberattacks, The New York Times
• Utilities, Refineries, and Banks Are Victims of Cyber Attacks, Report Says, The Wall Street Journal
• China Safe From Cyberattacks, Financial Times
• China Leads the World in Hacked Computers, McAfee Study Says, The Washington Post
• Report: Critical Infrastructures Under Constant Cyberattack Globally, Wired
• Report: Critical Infrastructure is a Frequent Target for Cyberattacks, Nextgov.com
• Critical Infrastructure Vulnerable To Attack, Information Week
• Government's Cybersecurity Role Gets Mixed Reaction, Information Week Government
• Corporations’ Cyber Security Under Widespread Attack, Survey Finds, Christian Science Monitor
• New Report from McAfee/CSIS Warns of Constant Cyber Attacks, Federal News Radio
• Australia’s Most Important Computers Under Constant Hacker Attack, The Sydney Morning Herald
• Cybersecurity Regs Seen as Less Restrictive in the US, Federal Computer Week
• Online Threats Continue to Outpace Government and Industry’s Ability to Respond, Government Computer News
• Critical Infrastructure Security a Mixed Bag, Report Finds, eWeek
• Report Finds Cyber Attacks Common, Threaten Key Systems, KCBS
• Critical Infrastructure Execs Fear China, The Register
• China, US, Russia in Cyber Arms Race: Net Security Chief, AFP
• New McAfee Report: Many Major IT Networks Attacked, GovConWire
• McAfee’s New Report Reveals Cyber Coldwar, the Costs and Impact of Cyber Attacks, TMCNet
• Survey: Execs Have Growing Fear of Cyber Attacks, IT Business Edge
• Critical Infrastructure ‘Under Attack’ from Cyber Criminals, IT PRO
• Analysis: Targeted Attacks Set New Challenges, MicroScope
• IT Execs Now Favor Regulations for Cybersecurity, NewsFactor
• SCADA System, Critical Infrastructure Security Lacking, Survey Finds, SearchSecurity.com
• US Intel Chief Paints Dark Picture of Cyberattack Defense, TechNewsWorld