Ex-official: NATO cyber ties still strong, though U.S. dials back high-level role

By Charlie Mitchell / July 10, 2018 at 11:47 AM
As President Trump meets this week with fellow NATO leaders in Brussels, former State Department cybersecurity coordinator Christopher Painter says the alliance continues to work well together on cybersecurity amid larger political tensions and a general scaling back of U.S. initiatives on the issue. "The U.S. has continued to work closely with its allies on cybersecurity issues," Painter said from Brussels in a telephone interview with Inside Cybersecurity . But he said the U.S. "is not playing as energetic a...

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