The High-Stakes Blame Game in the White House Cybersecurity Plan

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The High-Stakes Blame Game in the White House Cybersecurity Plan
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The Biden administration proposes stronger cybersecurity protections and regulations for critical infrastructure, an expanded program to disrupt cybercriminal activity, and a focus on global cooperation.

fight to improve cybersecurity and encourage investment in digital defenses, some experts have a controversial suggestion. They say the only way to make companies take it seriously is to create real economic incentives—by making them legally liable if they have not taken adequate steps to secure their products and infrastructure.

Publicizing the strategy is a way of making the White House's priorities clear, but it does not in itself mean that Congress will pass legislation to enact specific policies. With the release of the document, the Biden administration seems focused on promoting discussion about how to better handle liability as well as raising awareness about the stakes for individual Americans.

Jen Easterly, director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, had a similar sentiment for an audience at Carnegie Mellon University earlier this week. “We often blame a company today that has a security breach because they didn’t patch a known vulnerability,” she said. “What about the manufacturer that produced the technology that required too many patches in the first place?”

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