Government Information Security Podcast

James Lewis, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies James Lewis likens the Internet to the Wild West, an untamed environment with few restraints to inhibit innovation. It's a popular vision held by many in business and government, an impression that Lewis - senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies - believes puts cyberspace at risk. "I just heard somebody from White House say that we want cyberspace to be unrestrained and uncontrolled, and to be like the Wild West because the Wild West was best for innovation and we need to keep the free and untrammeled Internet to allow for continued innovation. And, the Internet community would itself eventually come up with the solution to cybersecurity." said Lewis, who also serves as project leader for the Center's Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, which produced a report 13 months ago that served as a roadmap for the Obama administration in developing its cybersecurity policy. Lewis, in an intervi