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Cy beRspACepolICy RevIew
Auring a Trutd and Riint Infrmatinand Cmmunicatin Infratructur
 
 
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Cyberspace touches practically everything and everyone. It provides a platorm or innovation andprosperity and the means to improve general welare around the globe. But with the broad reach o a loose and lightly regulated digital inrastructure, great risks threaten nations, private enterprises,and individual rights. The government has a responsibility to address these strategic vulnerabilitiesto ensure that the United States and its citizens, together with the larger community o nations, canrealize the ull potential o the inormation technology revolution. The architecture o the Nation’s digital inrastructure, based largely upon the Internet, is not secure orresilient. Without major advances in the security o these systems or signicant change in how theyare constructed or operated, it is doubtul that the United States can protect itsel rom the growingthreat o cybercrime and state-sponsored intrusions and operations. Our digital inrastructure hasalready suered intrusions that have allowed criminals to steal hundreds o millions o dollars andnation-states and other entities to steal intellectual property and sensitive military inormation.Other intrusions threaten to damage portions o our critical inrastructure. These and other riskshave the potential to undermine the Nation’s condence in the inormation systems that underlieour economic and national security interests. The Federal government is not organized to address this growing problem eectively now or in theuture. Responsibilities or cybersecurity are distributed across a wide array o ederal departmentsand agencies, many with overlapping authorities, and none with sucient decision authority todirect actions that deal with oten conficting issues in a consistent way. The government needsto integrate competing interests to derive a holistic vision and plan to address the cybersecurityrelated issues conronting the United States. The Nation needs to develop the policies, processes,people, and technology required to mitigate cybersecurity-related risks.Inormation and communications networks are largely owned and operated by the private sector,both nationally and internationally. Thus, addressing network security issues requires a public-private partnership as well as international cooperation and norms. The United States needs acomprehensive ramework to ensure coordinated response and recovery by the government, theprivate sector, and our allies to a signicant incident or threat. The United States needs to conduct a national dialogue on cybersecurity to develop more publicawareness o the threat and risks and to ensure an integrated approach toward the Nation’s needor security and the national commitment to privacy rights and civil liberties guaranteed by theConstitution and law.Research on new approaches to achieving security and resiliency in inormation and communications inrastructures is insucient. The government needs to increase investment in research thatwill help address cybersecurity vulnerabilities while also meeting our economic needs and nationalsecurity requirements.i
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