White House sends cyber deterrence policy to Congress

The Obama administration has outlined its cyber deterrence policy for lawmakers after long-standing criticism from Capitol Hill that the administration lacked a strategy.

All instruments of power, including military and economic means, should be used in a targeted manner to “create uncertainty in adversaries’ minds about the effectiveness of any malicious cyber activities,” states the report sent by the Pentagon to defense committees.

The administration will focus its deterrence on cyberthreats intended to cause casualties, disrupt critical infrastructure such as the power grid, inhibit the command and control of the U.S. military and steal intellectual property. That list of deterrence priorities is “neither exhaustive nor static,” according to the document. For the full article click here 

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