It singles out China as a growing threat.
that addresses, among other things, the role of large tech companies in preventing cyberattacks. The strategy document calls to “rebalance the responsibility to defend cyberspace,” shifting responsibility for things like ransomware attacks off of individuals, small businesses, and local governments. It also singles out China as “the broadest, most active, and most persistent threat to both government and private sector networks.
President Joe Biden’s plan outlines goals rather than immediately implemented rules. But if passed into laws and regulations, it would expand cybersecurity requirements for companies that run digital infrastructure the White House deems critical. That could include cloud computing services that power a huge portion of web infrastructure — and would have to meet minimum security standards or face legal liability.
The document calls out the growing threat of ransomware schemes as a particular area of focus. Alongside campaigns to shut down the actors running ransomware operations, it calls on agencies to go after “illicit cryptocurrency exchanges” that help make ransomware profitable,Biden’s strategy replaces a 2018 document created under former President Donald Trump.
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