National Cyber Director Harry Coker looks back (and ahead) on the Cyber Director office

Outgoing ONCD head Harry Coker Jr. reviewed the office’s accomplishments and shortcomings, urging clearer formal authority, harmonized cyber regulations, and consideration of software liability while warning about insufficient prioritization of cybersecurity funding and the need for greater support for state, local, tribal and territorial governments; the article is a policy interview/profile rather than a technical incident or threat report.