Biden White House Releases Interim National Security Strategic Guidance

The White House has issued Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, calling cybersecurity a “top priority” that requires both a diplomatic and military response from the federal government, directing “departments and agencies to align their actions with this guidance,” and promising to “elevate cybersecurity as an imperative across the government.”

It outlines various political, environmental, economic, social, and military threats to national security, then notes that “running beneath many of these broad trends is a revolution in technology that poses both peril and promise.” Among its strategies, the White House seeks to impose “substantial costs through cyber and noncyber means” on the perpetrators of advanced cyber threats. The guidance also highlights the administration’s commitment to ramping up next-generation 5G connectivity and universal high-speed internet.

Sources:

• White House: Interim National Security Strategic Guidance
• Federal News Network: Biden Makes Cybersecurity ‘Top Priority’ in National Security Guidance