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TEXAS JEWISH POST $ SINCE 1947
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U.S., Israel work to ensure
cyber security
By Rebekah Mercer
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Since Israel officially became a
state in 1948, the United States has
benefited from the Jewish State’s
knowledge of regional actors in the
Middle East and its leading contri-
bution to critical security systems
and technologies.
From its inception, Israel has been
at the forefront of managing diverse
security threats, which also face
the United States, and it has led the
charge in the advancement of vital
cyber security technology systems.
Israel’s world-renowned expertise in
the field of cyber security is critical
in order for the United States to be
best equipped to defend itself.
The strategic U.S.-Israel alliance
is vital for both nations. While
Israel receives financial and military
support from the United States, the
Jewish State provides innovative
military technologies and medical
expertise that the U.S. utilizes to
best protect American troops. This
alliance between both nations has
always been shaped by security
imperatives, and in the 21st century,
many of these imperatives take place
in the digital realm.
Executive deals and
legislative Initiatives
Recognizing Israel’s innovative
cyber defense strategies, recent U.S.
presidents have made strides toward
cyber collaboration with Israel.
Under the Obama
administration, the heads of the
Israel National Cyber Bureau (INCB)
and the National Cyber Security
Authority signed a joint declaration
on cooperative cyber defense with
the U.S. secretary and deputy
secretary of homeland security June
21, 2016. This declaration, in the
pursuit of having both nations share
“operative information” dealing
with cyber defense in real time,
required a creation of networks
between Israel’s National Cyber
Security Authority and its U.S.
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such attacks pose. However, to
better predict and strengthen the
systems that manage U.S. critical
infrastructure especially from
potential cyber threats that originate
from regions in the Middle East,
further legislative and executive
initiatives are crucial to encourage
U.S.-Israeli cyber intelligence
cooperation in this particular area.
What role can the Lone Star
State play in the U.S. and Israel
cyber relationship?
My response can be found in
next week’s issue of the Texas Jew-
ish Post, in the second part of this
analysis, which will explore areas
in Texas infrastructure that require
advanced cyber security. In Part II,
I will also explain the significance of
recent trips to Israel made in the last
year by important Texas leaders.
Rebekah Mercer is a research fellow for the
Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce and a recent
graduate of Baylor University, where she studied
political science and business administration.
She will begin law school this fall, where she
will pursue her interests in constitutional and
international law.
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nation and (they) can do it without
ever having to be physically present
in the target nation,” White said.
Further, in emphasizing why
developed nations such as the
United States are much more prone
to such cyber-attacks on critical
infrastructure, White explained that
developed nations are more likely to
be adversely affected by these forms
of attack.
“One thing, however, is that the
U.S. and other developed countries
are more susceptible to attacks on
their critical infrastructures than
are less developed nations,” he
said. ”If a country has trouble on a
normal, daily basis keeping power
flowing — if they have frequent
power outages — then an attack on
their electrical infrastructure will
likely have less of an impact on the
nation than a similar attack on a
more developed nation.”
The DHS has created the Office of
Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis
(OCIA) to better understand the
nature of potential cyber-attacks
and create prevention and response
plans to mitigate damage that
the Financial
Services
Sector and the
Healthcare
and the Public
Health Sector.
Thus, major
obstruction as
to how these
sectors are
managed will have a significant
impact on U.S. national security, its
economy and public health.
Cyber threats can pose a
unique type of obstruction
in the management of critical
infrastructure. In an interview
with the Texas-Israel Chamber
of Commerce, Gregory White,
the director of the Center for
Infrastructure Assurance and
Security (GIAS) at the University of
Texas in San Antonio, home to one
of the nation’s top cyber security
academic programs, emphasized
the potential of cyber threats on
America’s critical infrastructure.
“Cyber provides an opportunity
for terrorists to have a significant
impact on the infrastructures of a
equivalent in the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS).
Further, soon after President
Donald Trump’s visit to Israel
this past May, his administration
announced its intentions to work
more with the Jewish State in the
area of cyber security. The U.S. will
continue to pursue these security
initiatives through supporting
Israeli rocket defense systems such
as the Iron Dome and David’s Sling
and by working with Israel to thwart
cyber-attacks.
According to Thomas Bossert,
Trump’s assistant for homeland
security and counterterrorism,
“The agility Israel has in developing
solutions will innovate cyber
defenses that we can test here and
bring back to America. Perfect
security may not be achievable, but
we have within our reach a safer and
more secure internet.”
The importance of cyber
collaboration with Israel is also
recognized by members of Congress,
who in recent years have introduced
legislation to foster such initiatives.
For example, the “United States-
Israel Cyber Security Cooperation
Enhancement Act of 2017” passed
the House and was introduced
in the Senate. If the bill becomes
law, DHS would be required to
create a grant program for cyber
security research and development,
and the “demonstration and
commercialization of cyber security
technology.”
Critical infrastructure
Additionally, legislation and
executive initiatives in the pursuit
of cyber collaboration between the
U.S. and Israel go beyond national
security in the international arena.
Such initiatives can allow the U.S.
to glean from Israeli cyber expertise
to implement new ways in fighting
potential internal cyber threats to
critical infrastructure.
The U.S.’s internal critical
infrastructure consists of a broad
range of sectors, such as the Water
and Wastewater Systems Sector,
Advanced technology
combined with
old-fashioned service.
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