When President Biden took office one year ago, our country was confronting a historic set of crises all at once—the COVID-19 pandemic, a painful economic downturn, an accelerating climate crisis, and systemic inequities. Every day since, the President and this Administration have moved quickly and decisively to meet these challenges head-on, make the most of…
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A Proclamation on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, 2022
This month, we recommit to improving the resilience of our Nation’s critical infrastructure so it can withstand all hazards — natural and manmade. By building better roads, bridges, and ports; fortifying our information technology and cybersecurity across sectors, including election systems; safeguarding our food and water sources; moving to clean energy; and strengthening…
FACT SHEET: Biden Administration and Private Sector Leaders Announce Ambitious Initiatives to Bolster the Nation’s Cybersecurity
Today, President Biden met with private sector and education leaders to discuss the whole-of-nation effort needed to address cybersecurity threats. Recent high-profile cybersecurity incidents demonstrate that both U.S. public and private sector entities increasingly face sophisticated malicious cyber activity. Cybersecurity threats and incidents affect businesses of all sizes, small towns and cities in every corner…
FACT SHEET: Ongoing Public U.S. Efforts to Counter Ransomware
This week the National Security Council is facilitating an international counter-ransomware event with over 30 partners to accelerate cooperation on improving network resilience, addressing the financial systems that make ransomware profitable, disrupting the ransomware ecosystem via law enforcement collaboration, and leveraging the tools of diplomacy to address safe harbors and improve partner capacity. Ransomware incidents…
Readout of Vice President Harris’s Meeting with Prime Minister Lee of Singapore
Vice President Kamala Harris today met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore. Building on the Vice President’s August 2021 visit to Singapore, the leaders reviewed progress made on initiatives launched last year and agreed to further strengthen the U.S.-Singapore strategic partnership. The Vice President and the Prime Minister discussed Russia’s brutal and unjustified…
Quad Joint Leaders’ Statement
Today, we – Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan, and President Joe Biden of the United States – convene in Tokyo to renew our steadfast commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific that is inclusive and resilient. Just over one year ago, Leaders…
Office of Management and Budget Releases Draft Federal Strategy For Moving the U.S. Government Towards a Zero Trust Architecture
OMB and CISA are requesting public comment on key zero trust strategic and technical guidance to enhance enterprise security across the federal government Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a draft federal strategy designed to move the U.S. government towards a zero trust architecture. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also…
Remarks by President Biden on Collectively Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
East Room 2:11 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you all for being here to discuss the core national security challenge we’re facing, the American people are facing, and — and our economy is facing with cybersecurity. We’ve seen time and again how the technologies we rely on — from our cell phones to pipelines,…
Executive Order on Amending Regulations Relating to the Safeguarding of Vessels, Harbors, Ports, and Waterfront Facilities of the United States
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of title II of the Act of June 15, 1917, as amended (46 U.S.C. 70051) (the “Act”), and in addition to the finding in Executive Order 10173 of October 18, 1950,…
Readout of White House Meeting on Software Security
Today, the White House convened government and private sector stakeholders to discuss initiatives to improve the security of open source software and ways new collaboration could rapidly drive improvements. Software is ubiquitous across every sector of our economy and foundational to the products and services Americans use every day. Most major software packages include open…
