{"id":2371,"date":"2021-09-24T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2021-09-24T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:26:59","slug":"president-bidens-national-security-memorandum-to-strengthen-nations-cybersecurity-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2021\/09\/24\/president-bidens-national-security-memorandum-to-strengthen-nations-cybersecurity-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden\u2019s National Security Memorandum to Strengthen Nation\u2019s Cybersecurity Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas&nbsp;and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo&nbsp;released a&nbsp;joint&nbsp;statement on&nbsp;the&nbsp;issuance of&nbsp;preliminary&nbsp;cybersecurity performance goals&nbsp;as directed by&nbsp;President Biden\u2019s National Security Memorandum, \u201cImproving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, we are delivering on the first step of the President\u2019s National Security Memorandum (NSM) objectives to strengthen the cybersecurity of our Nation\u2019s critical infrastructure\u00a0control\u00a0systems.\u00a0\u00a0DHS\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in coordination with\u00a0the Department of Commerce\u2019s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),\u00a0developed preliminary cybersecurity performance goals based on nine categories of best practices.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2021\/09\/DHS-Cyber.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2021\/09\/DHS-Cyber.jpg 474w, https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/file\/2021\/09\/DHS-Cyber-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>These goals are part of a long overdue, whole-of-government\u00a0effort to meet the scale and severity of the cybersecurity threats facing our country.\u00a0 It is vital that critical infrastructure owners and operators immediately take steps to strengthen their cybersecurity posture toward these high-level goals.\u00a0\u00a0The safety and security of the American people relies on the resilience of the companies that provide essential services such as power, water, and transportation.\u00a0\u00a0We look forward to further engaging with key industry stakeholders to promote these efforts to protect our national and economic security.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the preliminary performance goals and objectives&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/control-systems-goals-and-objectives\">on CISA.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas&nbsp;and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo&nbsp;released a&nbsp;joint&nbsp;statement on&nbsp;the&nbsp;issuance of&nbsp;preliminary&nbsp;cybersecurity performance goals&nbsp;as directed by&nbsp;President Biden\u2019s National Security Memorandum, \u201cImproving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cToday, we are delivering on the first step of the President\u2019s National Security Memorandum (NSM) objectives to strengthen the cybersecurity of our Nation\u2019s critical infrastructure\u00a0control\u00a0systems.\u00a0\u00a0DHS\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,46,1],"tags":[59,2530,890,2531],"class_list":{"0":"post-2371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cyber-security","8":"category-technology","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"tag-biden","11":"tag-cyber-security","12":"tag-dhs","13":"tag-national-security"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}