The Biden Harris administration has released a National Cybersecurity Strategy that aims to provide guidelines on how U.S. businesses allocate roles, responsibilities and resources in cyberspace.
strategy Shifting the burden of cybersecurity from individuals, small businesses and local governments to technology companies. We are also pushing to realign incentives to prioritize long-term investments in order to find a balance between existing and future threats.
The strategy contains five pillars. Guidelines aimed at improving certain aspects of cybersecurity across the United States.
These are, respectively, defending critical infrastructure, disrupting and dismantling threat actors, driving to reshape market forces to advance security, investing in a “resilient future”, and building international partnerships. Create.
According to Brian Cunningham, a former White House attorney, Theon Technologythe strategy is the culmination of a shared belief that the cybersecurity industry should have more coercive regulation.
“[However, this should be] It’s been a very consultative process with the industry and they want to rely first on self-regulation and market forces and only regulate where there are significant gaps,” Cunningham explained.
“I think this is the right approach. Even industry leaders say that at least SolarWinds attackthey are open to reasonable regulation and perhaps the time has come,” he added.
At the same time, Cunningham argued that such regulations should be generalized at a high level to allow for different approaches to compliance given the fact that attack vectors and defensive best practices are constantly changing. said he thought it was.
“The strategy will also almost certainly support more offensive offensive cyber operations and doctrine by the US government itself,” he said.
“I do not believe, and should not necessarily, promote the legalization of offensive cyber activities by private entities, at least without a court order or other appropriate legal process.”
The release of the National Cybersecurity Strategy comes two months after the Biden administration. signed another law The Quantum Cybersecurity Readiness Act, which aims to strengthen cybersecurity in the United States.
