Lax Cybersecurity Practices Lead To Biden Directive Focused On Preventing Attacks

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A spate of recent troubling network breaches show that the nation's overall approach to cybersecurity is lacking and the nation needs to immediately put more emphasis on preventing cyber-attacks than be in incident response mode, a senior administration official said Wednesday evening just ahead of a White House release of a sweeping executive order that aims to dramatically improve the cyber defenses of the federal government while also leveraging its capacity to drive changes in the private sector’s cybersecurity efforts. “These incidents share a few things in common,” the official told reporters during a background call. “First, a laissez-faire attitude towards cybersecurity. For too long, we failed to take the necessary steps to modernize our cybersecurity defenses because doing so takes time, effort and money. And instead, we’ve accepted that we’ll move from one incident response to the next. And we simply cannot let ‘waiting for the next incident to happen’ be the status quo under which we operate.”