US Strategy Shifts Responsibility to Big Tech for Cyber Accountability

TLDR:

Key points:

• The US government aims to hold big tech corporations accountable for cybersecurity.
• The 2023 White House cybersecurity strategy focuses on shifting responsibility and legal liability to software publishers.

Alex O’Neill, a national security researcher at Harvard’s Belfer Center, and Lachlan Price, a student at the Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan School of Management, discuss the US strategy to make big tech more responsible for cybersecurity. The focus is on moving the onus from individuals to software publishers. Companies like Microsoft and Google are already on board with this idea. Incentives such as tax benefits and workforce development initiatives will strengthen this model. This shift will have significant global implications, as most major tech providers are based in the US. Other countries will need to partner with the US to enact similar changes in their own jurisdictions. The interview also delves into how global governments encourage private sector cybersecurity investments, the role of US infrastructure in national cybersecurity efforts, and how a decentralized cybersecurity strategy impacts critical infrastructure protection in the US.