The White House today announced a new national cyber strategy, laying out a vision for shoring up the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure sectors through baseline cybersecurity requirements and re-aligning more responsibility for cyber risks to big tech companies.

The strategy also envisions using federal procurement as a major tool for improving accountability for cybersecurity in products and services…

Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging threats, said the strategy “codifies” a shift that’s already well underway.

“We recognize that we need to move from just a public-private partnership, information sharing approach, to implement minimum mandates,” Neuberger told reporters. “Information sharing and public-private partnerships are inadequate for the threats we face when we look at critical infrastructure.” … Read the full article here.