Success of National Cybersecurity Strategy Rests on Swift Action

By Teri Robinson for Security Boulevard
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

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Just a week after the White House unveiled its long-anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy, a pair of incidents—a breach at DC Health Link that may have exposed the personal data of members of Congress and a warning that hackers were exploiting old vulnerabilities in VMware—underscored the importance of shoring up cybersecurity defenses and demonstrated that no one is immune to potentially devastating threats.

“Even amid surging cybercrime, shifting the cybersecurity burden to software developers and tech solution providers may seem an unduly harsh move. However, economically speaking, it makes perfect sense,” said Ilia Kolochenko, founder of ImmuniWeb and a member of the Europol Data Protection Experts Network.

“Software vendors will certainly argue that they will be required to raise their prices, eventually harming end users and innocent consumers,” he said. “This is, however, comparable to carmakers complaining about “unnecessarily expensive” airbag systems and seatbelts, arguing that each manufacturer should have the freedom to build cars as it sees fit.”

The multipronged cybersecurity scheme aims to bolster the nation’s security posture by defending critical infrastructure; disrupting and dismantling threat actors; shape market forces to drive security and resilience; investing in a resilient future and forging international partnerships to pursue shared goals. Read Full Article