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Cyberspace is now viewed by most countries as critical national infrastructure and cyber security as essential to successful governance of their nations. Historically, nations have displayed a clear bias towards offensive cyber security capabilities and have devoted most resources to that side of things - but that is changing.
Our government and DoD will need to work closely with industry to build and increase our defensive capabilities. This is reflected in the new DoD Cyber Strategy released in April 2015. We believe the Data1Qbit system will be perfectly positioned to serve our country's needs within the unique space where we operate.
The Data1Qbit IT system is designed to systematically and continuously collect, track, organize, and analyze data related to the following:
- All companies globally engaged in producing cyber security products and services
- All available details about ALL defensive and offensive cyber security products and services
- All available information about enterprise and SME cyber security company/product preferences, problems and purchases
- All available information related to the financial, legal, ownership, and other status indicators of cyber security companies
- All available information related to cyber security product updates, releases, problems, status change, and user sentiment
- All information available related to staffing and personnel at cyber security companies
This data will be collected and distributed according to a closely managed Security Industry Vendor Ontology (SIVO) which will be correctly aligned with the NIST Cyber Security Framework and have the support of the federal government, DoD, and various commercial participants.
As this data accumulates, it becomes extremely valuable and sensitive in terms of what it reveals about individual and national enterprise vulnerabilities, behavior, and defensive readiness.
This data and the analysis and alerting capabilities derived from it will be of great value to our business infrastructure, security agencies, law enforcement agencies, the cyber insurance industry, and others that play a role in protecting our country's intellectual property and IT infrastructure.
It is critical that this data be recognized as the national security asset it is and protected accordingly, while being made available on a commercial basis to our customers, our government and others deemed worthy. It can be assumed that this information will be targeted for attack by opportunists, criminals and rogue nation states, therefore great effort has and will be expended to engineer security into the system up-front and then protect it during operation.
It can be argued that most of our nation's intellectual property assets are held within the SMB environment. While some initial progress has been made in protecting the IP assets held by large enterprises, the SMB space remains naked. Any large scale and scalable solution like D1QB that can make a meaningful contribution to the ability of SMBs to protect their IP is an important national security asset which should be vigorously supported.