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The White House has announced the first iteration of the National Cybersecurity Implementation Plan. The plan aims to boost public and private cybersecurity resilience, take the fight to threat actors, beef up the defense of infrastructure and draw a clear national roadmap of cybersecurity responsibilities.
It is taking the novel step of publishing the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan to ensure transparency and a continued path for coordination. The Office of the National Cyber Director will coordinate activities under the plan, including an annual report to the President and Congress on the status of implementation, and partner with the Office of Management and Budget to ensure funding proposals in the President's Budget Request are aligned with NCSIP initiatives.
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The Biden-Harris administration today released its national cybersecurity strategy that focuses on shifting the burden of defending the country's cyberspace towards software vendors and service providers. Washington's new cybersecurity defense plan also acknowledges the collaboration between public and private sectors and with international allies and partners as essential for securing the nation against cyber threats.
The White House has begun its second annual International Counter Ransomware Summit in which Biden administration officials will convene with representatives of three dozen nations, the EU, and private business to discuss the growing threat posed by data-destroying cyber attacks. According to administration officials previewing the Summit over the weekend, the two-day event will focus on priorities like improving system resilience and developing better plans to disrupt ransomware actors in the planning phases of digital assaults.
Today's requirements [PDF] stem from US President Joe Biden's cybersecurity executive order from May 2021, which was in response to the SolarWinds disaster and other high-profile software supply chain meddling. This is essentially a guarantee from the vendor that their product meets minimum NIST standards for secure software development.
A number of companies pledged to do their parts to help assuage the shortage of cybersecurity professionals during the White House National Cyber Workforce and Education Summit on Tuesday. "The summit's goal was to"raise the bar on cybersecurity through greater awareness, education and training,'' the White House said in a statement.
President Joe Biden signed a national security memorandum on Thursday asking government agencies to implement measures that would mitigate risks posed by quantum computers to US national cyber security. The multi-year effort to migrate all vulnerable cryptographic systems to quantum-resistant cryptography will span over 50 government departments and agencies that use National Security Systems.
The White House is urging U.S. organizations to shore up their cybersecurity defenses after new intelligence suggests that Russia is preparing to conduct cyberattacks in the near future. With the U.S. imposing strict sanctions against Russia and aiding Ukraine in the war, the White House is expecting the Kremlin to retaliate with cyberattacks against critical infrastructure and U.S. interests.
The Russian government is exploring "Options for potential cyberattacks" on critical infrastructure in the U.S., the White House warned on Monday, in retaliation for sanctions and other punishments as the war in Ukraine grinds on. "The current conflict has put cybersecurity initiatives in hyperdrive, and today, industry leaders aren't just concerned about adversaries breaching critical infrastructure but losing access and control to them," Saket Modi, co-founder and CEO at Safe Security, said via email.