White House Goes on Cyber Offensive – Homeland Security Today

The national cybersecurity plan is expected to shift from a defensive posture to take the fight to U.S. adversaries, top cyber official says
The Trump administration’s National Cyber Strategy will shift from primarily focusing on online defenses to actively going after nation-state hackers to deter attacks before they happen, according to Washington’s top cybersecurity official.
Sean Cairncross, the administration’s national cyber director, said the U.S. needs to take the fight to adversaries by letting them know intrusions in the nation’s infrastructure or other critical targets will have real-world costs.
The strategy will center on “sending a signal that this behavior is not consequence-free,” Cairncross said, speaking Tuesday at the Aspen Cyber Summit in Washington. Rather than simply identifying and responding to a ransomware attack, he said, efforts need to be made to “really put a dent in the incentive to engage in this sort of behavior.”
Read the rest of the story at The Wall Street Journal.
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