It’s On YOU Tech Firms!

“It’s on you Tech firms” is President Biden’s message to technology companies. The Biden administration today issued cybersecurity strategy that calls on software makers and American industry to take far greater responsibility to assure that their systems cannot be hacked, while accelerating efforts by the F.B.I. and the Defense Department to disrupt hackers and ransomware groups around the world. I’m not sure I don’t disagree with this but I’m not sure if it will fly. Hackers and Ransomware attackers are constantly honing their skills and for a software vendor to keep up with it many be nearly impossible.

It’s On You Tech Firms!

For years, the government has pressed technology companies to voluntarily report intrusions in their systems and regularly “patch” their programs to shut down newly discovered vulnerabilities, much as an iPhone does with automatic updates every few weeks, as well as Microsoft, etc. The new National Cybersecurity Strategy concludes that such voluntary efforts are insufficient in a world of constant attempts by sophisticated hackers, often backed by Russia, China, Iran or North Korea, to get into critical government and private networks.

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