Overview of the National Cybersecurity Strategy

The Biden-Harris Administration has unveiled its highly anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy—a sweeping and ambitious document calling for “fundamental changes to the underlying dynamics of the digital ecosystem.” It sets numerous strategic objectives, ranging from defending federal government systems from cyber threats, increasing public-private collaboration on cyber resilience, shaping cybersecurity norms through federal procurement, and bolstering international law enforcement efforts to stop cyber criminals, to imposing mandatory cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure operators, pursuing federal data privacy legislation, developing “know your customer”-style rules for cloud infrastructure providers, and limiting software vendors' ability to disclaim liability for software vulnerabilities.