The White House has released the edition of its National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan.
The National Cybersecurity Strategic Implementation Plan, or NCSIP Edition 2, outlines 100 high-impact projects, includes 31 new goals and calls on six agencies to lead projects for the first time, the White House announced Tuesday.
These projects fall into five pillars: protecting critical infrastructure, disrupting and dismantling risk actors, shaping market forces to foster security and resilience, investing in a resilient future, and forging foreign partnerships to pursue non-unusual goals.
A strategic objective under the third pillar is to stimulate the progression of secure Internet of Things devices. The progression of a government IoT security labeling program is one of the projects to achieve this goal.
This initiative is being complexed through the Federal Communications Commission, which followed regulations to identify a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for wireless IoT products, also known as U. S. Launched in March, the regulations aim to inform consumers’ decisions when purchasing such devices and incentivize manufacturers to meet higher cyber standards.
The FCC is expected to complete the initiative by the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, according to the implementation plan.
Version 2 of the NCSIP coincides with the Office of the National Director of Cybersecurity’s report on the country’s cybersecurity posture, which examines five trends that reshaped the strategic environment in 2023.
These five trends are turning dangers into critical infrastructure, ransomware, chain-of-origin operations, adware, and synthetic intelligence.
The report also lists cybersecurity measures taken by the government, such as creating cybersecurity requirements to protect critical infrastructure, strengthening the national cybersecurity workforce, and improving software security to produce more secure products and services.
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