The Unlikely Romance of Hackers and Government Suitors
This Dark Reading commentary from December 14, 2023, examines how most federal infrastructure is managed by contractors and how hackers and government officials interact. Casey Ellis, principal at Tall Poppy Group, argues that decades of hacker community education and Capitol Hill partnership produced bills like this one.
Source description, as published
Very little modern federal infrastructure is managed by the government — putting a substantial portion of potentially targetable attack surfaces under oversight of federal contractors.