Rampant malicious activity in cyberspace hurts individuals, companies, and government agencies, while threatening US national security. The expected release of a new National Cybersecurity Strategy by the Biden Administration is an occasion for us to learn lessons from past efforts to reduce cyber risk, and to decide what further steps we might take.
The United States has issued such strategies in the past. Before my tenure leading cyber security official at the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, I was a member of the White House team that crafted the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace published in 2003.
