Overview Of The National Cybersecurity Strategy

The Biden-Harris Administration has unveiled its National Cybersecurity Strategy, a sweeping and ambitious document calling for fundamental changes to the digital ecosystem. The Strategy sets numerous strategic objectives, ranging from defending federal government systems from cyber threats, increasing public-private collaboration on cyber resilience, and bolstering international law enforcement efforts to stop cyber criminals, to imposing mandatory cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure operators, pursuing federal data privacy legislation, and developing “know your customer”-style rules for cloud infrastructure providers. This article summarizes key objectives of the Strategy and provides takeaways for businesses looking to anticipate developments in federal cybersecurity regulation.