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The U.S. federal government has enacted important cybersecurity laws in 2022 and will likely move forward with many of these bills before the year's end.

The annual defense policy bill <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/12/08/congress-cyber-defense-legislation/">has become</a> a go-to vehicle for cyber legislation, with lawmakers focused on digital security seizing every opportunity to attach uncontroversial measures to the must-pass bill.

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission worked with legislators and the Trump administration to get 27 recommendations implemented in policy last year. Its ...

In December 2020, cybersecurity experts began to unravel an unprecedented security breach affecting potentially thousands of organizations, including key federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Fully investigating and remediating this operation—known alternatively as SolarStorm, Sunburst, or Solorigate—will take months or years, but we know some key details: The perpetrators almost certainly acted on behalf of the Russian government, who can claim a tremendous intelligence success again...

  The next seismic event we face as a country may be a cyber pandemic. Funded by a foreign government, led by a terror organization, or carried out by a lone wolf with a laptop and a bit of skill, a major cyber event would spread faster and further than a biological virus, with potentially an equal or greater impact on our economy and way of life. Imagine a widespread attack on our electrical grid that engulfs an entire region of the country: cell phones become useless, gas stations are out of...

Sen. Angus King. Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images Deterrence, no matter the domain, hinges on credibility. The SolarWinds hack, a months-long effort reportedly by the Russian government to compromise core U.S. government agencies and critical infrastructure, has laid bare what many of us have known for years: Despite persistent efforts to protect and defend U.S. interests from malicious cyber activity, the United States lacks the credibility we need to deter our enemies in cyberspace belo...

Incoming Biden administration must act fast to prevent another SolarWinds cyber-attack and repair untold damage already done While we do not yet know the extent of the damage done, the SolarWinds cyber-attack is a sobering reminder that bad actors are actively at work against the United States. Now more than ever, it is critical that we contain and remove all malware and secure our government networks. To do this, the federal government must ensure a coordinated and robust response, pulling res...