The Biden administration on Thursday disclosed a strategy intending to boost minimum security standards for significant sectors and use military, law enforcement, and diplomatic powers to thwart cyberattacks.
White House officials said the Democratic administration plans to cooperate with Congress on legislation that would hold software companies liable for cybersecurity breaches, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The approach codifies two years of work on high-profile ransomware assaults on key infrastructure. An assault on a major gasoline pipeline that created fear at the pump and an East Coast fuel scarcity, among other strikes, brought cybersecurity into the spotlight.
The roughly 40-page paper outlines new rules and regulations to assist the US in preparing for and countering cyber threats over the next several years.
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Strategy Covers Collaboration Across Industries
The National Cyber Director (ONCD) policy is covered in five "pillars": "defend critical infrastructure; disrupt and dismantle threat actors; shape market forces to drive security and resilience; invest in a resilient future; and forge international partnerships," per The White House.
Among the many goals of the plan is to improve the federal government's ability to protect its computer networks and to boost the intelligence community's capacity for offensive hacking.
The Biden administration will begin coordinating with lawmakers and the corporate sector to draft a law that would make developers of insecure software legally responsible for their products if they did not adhere to industry standards and guidelines, according to Axios.
The strategy considers ransomware a "threat to national security, public safety, and economic prosperity," allowing the intelligence community to devote more resources to battling it.
Under the new strategy, the US government will also use international alliances and collaborations to combat threats to cybersecurity.
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