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The new National Cybersecurity Strategy builds on a long consensus but differs in important and long-overdue ways.
Cybersecurity enforcement will likely require an expansion of government inspections of critical infrastructure.
Security flaws keep software and entire supply chains vulnerable. It is critical that policymakers work to set regulatory lanes for companies to build safe and secure technology.
While a valuable part of a cybersecurity program, “third-party audits” are too often not audits and not done by true third parties.
As government policy moves toward more binding rules for cybersecurity, how should they be enforced? Self-assessment and self-certification are not likely to suffice.
If executed well, the strategy will serve as a strong pivot into a better vision for U.S. policy in cyberspace; if not, much of its promise will lack punch.
A new white paper from American University Washington College of Law’s Technology, Law, and Security Program considers how to combat the evolving ransomware threat in line with the Biden administration’s new National Cybersecurity Strategy.
Although the strategy builds on cybersecurity efforts from the previous three administrations, it departs from past perspectives and practices and, if fully implemented, has the potential to change the U.S. cybersecurity posture significantly for the better.
The long-awaited National Cybersecurity Strategy seeks to make fundamental changes to underlying dynamics of the digital ecosystem.