Friday, December 19, 2025

CyberScoop: White House cyber director defends ‘tough’ national cybersecurity strategy ahead of release

National Cyber Director Chris Inglis is expected to release the Biden administration’s first comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy in the coming days, a document that many expect will meet industry pushback as it could expand the government’s role in protecting the nation’s digital infrastructure…

Asked to comment on the “tough” new strategy at the Cipher Brief Threat Conference last week in Sea Island, Georgia, Inglis vigorously defended the document.

“If tough means that we have to be serious about what we want cyberspace to do for us and to then be willing to make investments to achieve that and if the government is then willing to put its money where its mouth is by specifying in its own architectures what the non-discretionary attributes are and making investments to deliver those … then it’s time for us to be tough,” he said. “Because at the end of the day, something like market forces only takes us so far.” … Read the full article here.

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Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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