Wednesday 28 July 2021

Biden Issues National Security Memorandum On Critical Infrastructure

"I think it's more than likely we're going to end up, if we end up in a war - a real shooting war with a major power - it's going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence, and it's increasing exponentially," president Biden said Tuesday.
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Biden Issues National Security Memorandum On Critical Infrastructure

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden today issued a national security memorandum on improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity, with the goal of encouraging critical infrastructure owners and operators to voluntarily adopt better cybersecurity standards.

The memorandum is intended to address what a senior administration official described Tuesday evening as the nation's "woefully insufficient" cybersecurity posture; it also comes less than 24 hours after Biden stated that a cyberattack could someday lead to a "real shooting war."

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