Public Sector Debates On Cybersecurity

Starting in 2015, policy makers started to pay a lot more attention to the security industry. The political sector continued the conversation on security throughout the year, as cybersecurity took a front-row seat in the 2016 presidential election and related Democratic National Committee breach. Also key in 2016 was the fight over encryption between Apple and the FBI, in which the law enforcement organization tried to compel Apple to open an encrypted iPhone. However, those conversations are far from resolved -- with lingering questions around encryption, data privacy, surveillance, information sharing and more likely to continue into 2017.