“I want to be clear: My administration will make cybersecurity a top priority at every level of government and we will make dealing with this breach a top priority from the moment we take office,” Biden said in a statement. “We will elevate cybersecurity as an imperative across the government, further strengthen partnerships with the private sector, and expand our investment in the infrastructure and people we need to defend against malicious cyberattacks.”
Biden said that his administration would impose “substantial costs” on individuals responsible for malicious cyberattacks in order to deter such activity.
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“Our adversaries should know that, as president, I will not stand idly by in the face of cyber assaults on our nation,” Biden said.
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FBI Says Significant Cyberattacks On US Federal Agencies Still Underway, Plans Response
Calling the recent cyberattacks on US federal agencies “a developing situation”, FBI, CISA and ODNI jointly said a coordinated response is being put together.
Calling the recent significant cyberattacks on US federal agencies “a developing situation”, FBI, CISA and ODNI jointly said on December 16 that they are putting together a unified response to the breaches while understanding its effect on the networks within the agencies. In a statement, late Wednesday (local time), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said that they have formed a Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) to coordinate the response of the entire government.