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Biden Memo Establishes Public-Private Cybersecurity Effort For Industrial Controls

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, July 28th, 2021

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Biden Memo Establishes Public-Private Cybersecurity Effort For Industrial Controls

President Joe Biden. Photo: White House

President Biden on Wednesday signed a new National Security Memorandum (NSM) designed to encourage owners and operators of critical infrastructures to continue to strengthen the cybersecurity of their systems that control operational technologies through voluntary measures and tasked two federal agencies to help in the effort. But the administration stopped short of any new mandates in its attempts to continue to prod the private sector to work with the federal government in boosting the cybersecurity of industrial control systems (ICS)…

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