The Biden administration launched a cybersecurity plan Thursday aiming to protect U.S. infrastructure against a “complex' and “borderless” threat environment.
is also"elevating our work on ransomware," announcing that the administration is now"declaring ransomware a threat to national security rather than just a critical challenge."
The overall strategy focuses on five pillars, including defending critical infrastructure by expanding the use of minimum cybersecurity requirements in critical sectors to ensureThe strategy also focuses on disrupting and dismantling threat actors and seeks to use"all instruments of national power" to make malicious cyber actors incapable of threatening U.S. national security.
President Biden's administration is looking to thwart bad actors but also look to future cyber threats.The strategy also comes after Biden in July 2021 signed a national security memorandum directing his administration to develop cybersecurity performance goals forin the U.S. for entities like electricity utility companies, chemical plants and nuclear reactors.
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