Josh Luckenbaugh
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is developing a new national cyber strategy, and a key element of it is imposing consequences on malicious actors in cyberspace, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Nov. 18.
The forthcoming guidance is meant to serve as the “single, coordinated strategy in this domain in a way that hasn't happened before,” Cairncross said during a keynote conversation at the Aspen Cyber Summit. “We are working in very close partnership with our inter-agency colleagues to develop this strategy and get it out the door.”
The national cyber strategy will be a “short statement of intent and policy, and then it will be paired very quickly with action items and deliverables under that,” he added.
A key pillar of the strategy is “shaping adversary behavior, introducing costs and consequences into this mix,” he said.
The United States has not done a “terrific job of sending a signal to our adversaries that this behavior is not consequence free,” he said, “and we need to do that because it is scaling, and it is becoming more aggressive every passing day.” Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence will make cyberattacks more potent, he added.
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