{"id":290461,"date":"2021-07-04T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/can-biden-really-protect-americans-from-the-next-crippling-cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2021-07-04T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:06:00","slug":"can-biden-really-protect-americans-from-the-next-crippling-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/can-biden-really-protect-americans-from-the-next-crippling-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"#: Can Biden really protect Americans from the next crippling cyber attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2353bdad924\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/can-biden-really-protect-americans-from-the-next-crippling-cyber-attack\/#International_rivals_have_little_incentive_to_stop_attacks_against_the_US\" >International rivals have little incentive to stop attacks against the U.S.<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/can-biden-really-protect-americans-from-the-next-crippling-cyber-attack\/#Chris_Matthews\" >Chris Matthews<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#: Can Biden really protect Americans from the next crippling cyber attack?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"International_rivals_have_little_incentive_to_stop_attacks_against_the_US\"><\/span>\n  International rivals have little incentive to stop attacks against the U.S.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000319553\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetArticleReader\n              \n              inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetArticleReader\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-object-article-reader\">\n<div class=\"audioplayer\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000319553\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Listen to Article\" tabindex=\"-1\" id=\"articlereader\" data-show-title=\"false\" data-theme=\"wsj-article-reader\" data-show-header=\"false\" data-show-subscribe=\"false\" data-ads-enabled=\"true\" data-save-publication=\"false\">\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       An epidemic of cyberattacks against the American government, citizens and businesses has raged for years,  but experts say the U.S. government has been slow to respond, while remaining skeptical that proposed solutions would be effective in stopping international cyberthreats.<\/p>\n<p> The only major cybersecurity law passed during the past decade was the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, which created rules encouraging the private sector to share information about cyberattacks with the government, but did not make disclosure mandatory. <\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       Jim Lewis, director of the strategic technologies program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies told MarketWatch that congressional gridlock kept the Obama administration from passing a bipartisan law that would enable the federal government to require private companies to report cyberattacks. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong>: Colonial Pipeline CEO warns Congress that \u2018criminal gangs\u2019 are always \u2018sharpening their tactics\u2019 to target U.S. companies, government<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of regulation used to be that you couldn\u2019t bring it up,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Chamber of Commerce and and everyone else lined up to explain why it was bad. At the end of the day, Mitch McConnell decided that he didn\u2019t want to regulate,\u201d referring to the then Republican Senate majority leader from Kentucky. During the Trump administration, \u201cwe pretty much sat out the last four years, it\u2019s painful to say that, but that\u2019s how it is,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, however, is attempting to make up for lost time with an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/05\/12\/fact-sheet-president-signs-executive-order-charting-new-course-to-improve-the-nations-cybersecurity-and-protect-federal-government-networks\/\" class=\"icon none\">executive  order signed in May<\/a> that would beef up U.S. government cyber security defenses and leverage the power of the federal procurement process to raise the security of software products. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s has really been a missed opportunity to use federal procurement to drive a secure market,\u201d Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> at the White House said during a virtual conference at CSIS last month. <\/p>\n<p>She added that the government is developing software standards that private providers must meet in order to sell to the government under the theory that higher quality software would become the industry standard, given the vast amount of software the government purchases annually. Neuberger argued that it wouldn\u2019t be cost effective for software providers to offer two products: a superior one to the government and a substandard one to the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re building software in a world where you have sophisticated nation-state attackers constantly hunting for vulnerabilities in that software, build it in more secure ways,\u201d Neuberger said.<\/p>\n<p>Following last year\u2019s Solar Winds attack, which went unnoticed for months and threatened 18,000 companies and government agencies, and the Colonial Pipeline hack that led to widespread gasoline shortages in the U.S. Northeast, there finally seems to be an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>etite for bipartisan legislation that would enable better oversight of critical infrastructure, according to Mark Gamis a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton who advises federal clients on cyber operations. <\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>He pointed to<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/16\/politics\/bill-report-cyber-breach-24-hours\/index.html\" class=\"icon none\"> reports of a proposal<\/a> drafted by Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia and Republican senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Susan Collins of Maine that would require federal contractors and owners of critical infrastructure to report cyber incidents to federal authorities within 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s important because the federal government has tremendous resources to bring to bear to help our with an incident, and in any sort of emergent situation, time is of the essence,\u201d he said, adding that the bipartisan nature of the bill indicates the GOP is now ready to get on board with mandatory reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity advocates have long argued that greater collaboration between government and business is essential to mitigate the effects of cybercrime. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernments and companies have different sources of information, insight and intelligence, wrote Paul Me, a lead partner for Cyber Risk at the consultancy Oliver Wyman in an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2021\/05\/cybersecurity-governments-business\/\" class=\"icon none\">op-ed for the World Economic Forum<\/a>. \u201cPooling them in a timely manner will create a clearer and more current picture of cyberthreats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CSIS\u2019 Jim Lewis, warned, however, that at its core the problem  must be viewed through the lense of geopolitics, because the most sophisticated cyberattacks largely come from state actors or criminal groups in adversarial nations, including China, Iran and Russia. U.S. intelligence officials have said both the Solar Winds and Colonial Pipeline attack were done by Russian proxies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also<\/strong>: Biden says he told Putin infrastructure should be \u2018off limits\u2019 to cyberattacks<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe Russians have a thriving cybercrime market and make billions of dollars a year,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cSo why would they give that up, especially because the Kremlin enjoys the U.S. getting hit over the head?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Lewis said that the Biden-Putin summit earlier this month was a success insofar  as Biden set boundaries on acceptable behavior, with the president demanding that 16 critical infrastructure sectors, including energy and water, should be off-limits to cyberattacks. The question of how the U.S. would retaliate following a hack on one of these sectors, however, remains unanswered. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russians have basically said that \u2018you have so many sanctions on us, one more won\u2019t make a difference,\u201d Lewis said, adding that the U.S. must get creative about an cyber-offensive approach to punish adversaries for their behavior, including shutting down cloud computing services that power the Russian internet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are hard issues because the two things that the government needs to do is regulate U.S. companies while engaging with both allies and opponents on the international stage,\u201d Lewis added. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s too much for the government, but if it\u2019s too much in the government, we just need to get used to being whacked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>      <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author  hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Chris Matthews\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chris_Matthews\"><\/span>Chris Matthews<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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