Interim national security strategic guidance

#Interim national security strategic guidance update

We will renew our commitment to international engagement on cyber issues, working alongside our allies and partners to uphold existing and shape new global norms in cyberspace. The Administration will facilitate the accelerated development and rollout of next-generation telecommunications and information communications infrastructure here in the United States, while using the buying power of the Federal Government to incentivize the move towards more secure supply chains. Departments and agencies will align their investments to the priorities, which will focus on building new cybersecurity approaches that use emerging technologies, improving information-sharing and risk management related to cross-sector interdependencies, and building resilience to large-scale or long-duration disruptions.

#Interim national security strategic guidance update

The Federal Government will update the National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Research and Development Plan to set priorities for addressing cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure. The United States Government will work with private and public sector entities to promote understanding of cybersecurity risk so they make more informed risk-management decisions, invest in appropriate security measures, and realize benefits from those investments. We will expand our investments in the infrastructure and people we need to effectively defend the nation against malicious cyber activity, providing opportunities to Americans of diverse backgrounds as we build an unmatched talent base. We will collaborate with the private sector and civil society to understand trends in technology advancement to maintain the United States technological edge in connected technologies and to ensure secure practices are adopted from the outset. The Federal Government will work with the private sector to manage risks to critical infrastructure at the greatest risk. We will work together to manage and share risk, and we will encourage collaboration between the private sector and the government at all levels in order to build a safe and secure online environment for all Americans. Ensuring the security of cyberspace is fundamental to both endeavors. Protecting AmericaвЂ™s national security and promoting the prosperity of the American people are my top priorities. We will elevate cybersecurity as an imperative across the government. The table below contrasts the paragraph above, mostly sentence by sentence, to comparable passages in the Trump National Cyber Strategy.Д® will make cybersecurity a top priority, strengthening our capability, readiness, and resilience in cyberspace. Nonetheless, to get a sense of relative priorities, I found it interesting to compare the interim guidance to the Trump National Cyber Strategy published in 2018. The interim guidance document is, by definition, a work in progress, and one would expect a final guidance document to be roughly consistent with the interim guidance but also to contain a more substantial elaboration on the interim guidance. And we will hold actors accountable for destructive, disruptive, or otherwise destabilizing malicious cyber activity, and respond swiftly and proportionately to cyberattacks by imposing substantial costs through cyber and noncyber means.

We will make cybersecurity a top priority, strengthening our capability, readiness, and resilience in cyberspace.

Regarding cybersecurity, the document stated that On March 3, the Biden administration released its Interim National Security Strategic Guidance.