Government Measure to Combat Cyber Threats to National Infrastruture

Cyberspace touches nearly every part of our daily lives. It's the broadband networks beneath us and the wireless signals around us, the local networks in our schools and hospitals and businesses, and the massive grids that power our nation. It's the classified military and intelligence networks that keep us safe, and the World Wide Web that has made us more interconnected than at any time in human history. 

We must secure our cyberspace to ensure that we can continue to grow the nation’s economy and protect our way of life. The government must work collaboratively with critical infrastructure owners and operators to protect our nation’s most sensitive infrastructure from cybersecurity threats.   Specifically, we are working with industry to increase the sharing of actionable threat information and warnings between the private sector and the U.S. Government and to spread industry-led cybersecurity standards and best practices to the most vulnerable critical infrastructure companies and assets. Because cyberspace crosses every international boundary, we must engage with our international partners.  We will work to create incentives for, and build consensus around, an international environment where states recognize the value of an open, interoperable, secure, and reliable cyberspace. We will oppose efforts to restrict internet freedoms, eliminate the multi-stakeholder approach to internet governance, or impose political and bureaucratic layers unable to keep up with the speed of technological change.  An open, transparent, secure, and stable cyberspace is critical to the success of the global economy. Do these counter-measures go far enough to protect our national infrastucture? Share your comments with the Cloud and Cyber Security Center.