The White House has released the latest National Security Strategy which calls for improved network security defences to protect critical systems and intellectual property from theft.
The publication states that “our economy, safety, and health are linked through a networked infrastructure that is targeted by malicious government, criminal, and individual actors who try to avoid attribution”, and goes on to say that the US Government will “take necessary actions to protect our businesses and defend our networks against cyber theft of trade secrets for commercial gain whether by private actors or the Chinese government.”
In contrast to the last National Security Strategy released in 2010, this is first time the White House has specifically named a nation-state actor as being a primary threat U.S. businesses, and implies that the government – not just the businesses themselves – is primarily responsible for protecting intellectual property.
The strategy also addresses the need to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber attacks, referencing the recently developed Cybersecurity Framework that was produced by the The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with private industry and an array of security experts.
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