The White House has unveiled a national cybersecurity strategy calling for comprehensive regulation of the nation's vital services.
The White House has unveiled a national cybersecurity strategy calling for comprehensive regulation of the nation's vital services, acknowledging in a 38-page blueprint that reliance on voluntary cybersecurity measures has stopped short of preventing billions in economic losses following a spike in ransomware attacks, as well as"inadequate and inconsistent outcomes" across critical infrastructure like energy pipelines, food companies, schools and hospitals.
Senior administration officials previewing the plan noted that"the criminal justice system isn't going to be able to on its own address this problem," adding that the Biden administration will employ"other elements of national power" including sanctions and"rewards for justice" offerings that hamper cybercriminal operations.
But, according to the White House strategy, it is China that"now presents the broadest, most active, and most persistent threat to both government and private sector networks and is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do so."
"Attacks against our critical infrastructure in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is unfortunately not farfetched," CISA Director Jen Easterly"As we've recently hit the one-year mark of the war in Ukraine, we've seen the cyber threat at the forefront of geopolitical crises," said Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger, adding that theagainst Iranian intelligence services following an attack on the government networks of Albania, a NATO member.
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