The concept of “responsible radical transparency” plays a critical role in efforts to improve the state of cybersecurity, said Suzanne Spaulding, former undersecretary, Department of Homeland Security, and Jim Richberg, head of global policy and field CISO as security firm Fortinet.

“The shelf life of secrets is vanishingly short,” Spaulding said. “There are tremendous costs in trying to keep information secret, and there are also opportunity costs, as we saw in 9/11 where we failed to share information,” she said.