Taking the Offensive: What the New U.S. Cyber Strategy Means for European Allies and Industry
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What the New U.S. Cyber Strategy Means for European Allies and Industry
The Agora Strategy Executive Briefing analyzes the implications of the United States’ latest cyber strategy for European allies and international business.
The briefing outlines how the U.S. is shifting towards a more offensive cyber posture, increasingly involving the private sector and expecting greater burden-sharing from partners, while also creating potential frictions with European regulatory frameworks and compliance standards.
Executive Summary
The Cyber Strategy for America emphasizes using offensive cyber capabilities to deter cyberthreats affecting American citizens, including through required burden-sharing with third countries.
The private sector is at the strategy’s heart, both as a provider of intelligence and through criminal network disruption capabilities. Aggressive US cyber operations targeting cybercrime and scam centers in other countries are likely to occur.
The strategy promises deregulation to reduce compliance burdens, which risks lowering standards of defensive cybersecurity and clashing with EU regulations