National Cyber Strategy of the USA

The National Cyber Strategy outlines how the U.S. will

1. defend the homeland by protecting networks, systems, functions, and data
2. promote American prosperity by nurturing a secure, thriving digital economy and fostering strong domestic innovation
3. preserve peace and security by stengthening the United States’ ability to deter and punish those who use cyber tools for malicious purposes
4. expand American influence aborad to extend the key tenets of an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure Internet.

Protect the American People, the Homeland, and the American Way of Life

Objective: Mange cybersecurity risks to increase the security and resilience of the Nation's information and information systems.

Actions:

• Further centralize management and oversight of Federal civilian cybersecurity
• Align risk management and information technology Activities
• Improve Federal supply chain risk mangement
• Strengthen Federal contractor cybersecurity
• Ensure the Government leads in best and innovative practices
• Refine roles and responsibilities
• Prioritize actions according to identified national risks
• Leverage information and communications technology providers as cybersecurity enablers
• Protect our democracy
• Incentivize cybersecurity investments
• Prioritize national research and development investments
• Improve transportation and maritime cybersecurity
• Improve space cybersecurity
• Improve incident reporting and response
• Modernize electronic surveillance and computer crime laws
• Reduce threats from transnational criminal organizations in cyberspace
• Improve apprehension of criminals located abroad
• Strengthen partner nations’ law enforcement capacity to combat criminal cyber activity

Promote American Prosperity

Objective: Preserve U.S. influence in the technological ecosystem and the development of cyberspace as an open engine of economic growth, innovation, and efficiency.

Actions:

• Incentivize an adaptable and secure technology marketplace
• Prioritize innovation
• Invest in next generation infrastructure
• Promote the free flow of data across borders
• Maintain U.S. leadership in emerging technologies
• Promote full-lifecycle cybersecurity
• Updata Mechanisms to review foreign investment and operation in the U.S.
• Maintain a strong and balanced intellectual property protection system
• Protect the confidentiality and integrity of American ideas
• Build and sustain the talent pipline
• Expand re-skilling and educational opportunities for America's workers
• Enhance the Federal cybersecurity workforce
• Use executive authority to highlight and reward talent

Preserve Peace through Strength

Objective: Identify, counter, disrupt, degrade, and deter behavior in cyberspace that is destabilizing and contrary to national interests, while preserving U.S. overmatch in and through cyberspace.

Actions:

• Encourage universal adherence to cyber norms
• Lead with objective, collaborative intelligence
• Impose consequences
• Build a cyber deterrence initiative
• Counter malign cyber influence and information operations

Advance American Influence

Objective: Preserve the long-term openness, interoperability, security, and reliability of the Internet which supports and is reinforced by U.S. interests.

Actions:

• Protect and promote Internet freedom
• Work with like-minded countries, industry, academia, and civil society
• Promote a multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance
• Promote interoperable and reliable communications infrastructure and Internet connectivity
• Promote and maintain markets for U.S. ingenuity worldwide
• Enhance cyber capacity building efforts