Biden’s national cyber strategy to move risk from end users to technology producers

The Biden administration’s long-awaited national cyber strategy calls for  “fundamental shifts” in how the U.S. will protect itself in cyberspace, a senior official told the Munich Cyber Security Conference on Thursday.

Kemba Walden, the acting national cyber director, said the new strategy will entail a move to lift the “responsibility for cybersecurity risks… off of end users and put it on to producers.” It would also entail shifting the burden from state governments to the federal level. 

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