The Biden Administration recently introduced a new national cybersecurity strategy, expected to aggressively address an increasingly complex and dangerous threat landscape.
Improving cybersecurity may not be the top priority for the Biden Administration, but it is an issue that the White House has been focused on since the earliest days of President Biden’s tenure. For example, in May 2021, Biden issued an executive order that emphasized sharing information about threats and modernizing cybersecurity across the federal government. In 2022, President Biden signed the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA), which requires “the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to develop and implement regulations requiring covered entities to report covered cyber incidents and ransomware payments.”
In March 2023, the White House announced its plans for a national strategy that puts the burden of cybersecurity on organizations most capable of reducing risks. It also seeks to find the balance between defending against today’s threats while planning and investing in cybersecurity solutions for the future.
The executive order lists five pillars to build this strategy:
Defend critical infrastructure
Disrupt and dismantle threat actors
Shape market forces to drive security and resilience
Invest in a resilient future
Forge international partnerships to pursue shared goals.
“New cybersecurity standards will benefit companies and consumers,” Walt Szablowski, Founder and Executive Chairman of Eracent, said in an email statement. “We’ve passed the point of needing security tools, and we need the right process to coordinate security.”
