FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Delivers on Strengthening America’s Cybersecurity

Aims:

• Improving the cybersecurity of our critical infrastructure.
• Ensuring new infrastructure is smart and secure
• Countering ransomware attacks to protect Americans online.
• Working with allies and partners to deliver a more secure cyberspace
• Building the Nation’s cyber workforce and strengthening cyber education.
• Protecting the future – from online commerce to national secrets — by developing quantum-resistant encryption.

Sectors

The Administration has worked closely with key sectors – including transportation, banking, water, and healthcare – to help stakeholders understand cyber threats to critical systems and adopt minimum cybersecurity standards.

Financial blockings

The United States has made it harder for criminals to move illicit money, sanction a series of cryptocurrency mixers used regularly by ransomware actors to collect and “clean” their illicit earnings.

Developing a new label to help Americans know their devices are secure.

a label for Internet of Things (IoT) devices so that Americans can easily recognize which devices meet the highest cybersecurity standards to protect against hacking and other cyber vulnerabilities.

Starting with routers and home cameras

We are starting with some of the most common, and often most at-risk, technologies — routers and home cameras — to deliver the most impact, most quickly.

Quantum encryption

Advancements in quantum computing threaten that encryption, so this summer the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced four new encryption algorithms that will become part of NIST’s post-quantum cryptographic standard, expected to be finalized in about two years.