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Regulation, Liability, National Power Tools Feature In New National Cybersecurity Strategy

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

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Regulation, Liability, National Power Tools Feature In New National Cybersecurity Strategy

Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology. Photo: National Security Agency

The Biden administration on Thursday released a new National Cybersecurity Strategy that builds on work of previous administrations but goes in new directions in several areas including calling for expanding regulations to more critical infrastructure sectors, making software companies liable for security shortcomings, and bringing to bear all tools of national power to thwart threat actors. Much of the new strategy had been telegraphed if not discussed outright by White House and other administration officials in the past months. The…

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