“Jeremiah Grossman, founder and CTO of WhiteHat Security, said both government and the private sector ‘absolutely have not gotten better at identifying and tracking hackers. It’s gotten harder. Particularly because if the bad guys know how to hide, they can.’
Grossman agrees that defense against cyberattacks is not enough. ‘The concept that [Baker] is proposing has been a topic of discussion for some time in the security community but still has yet to be fully realized,’ he said. ‘This is how everyone already treats every other crime, such as those in the physical world, and we should try to do the same with the digital world, as the line between two continues to blur.'”
Source:Best defense against cyberattacks is good offense, says former DHS official – PC Advisor