This article discusses the lack of investment in offensive counter cyber capabilities to go after cyber attackers, as opposed to making systems more secure and harder to breach. To support this, the article cites how regardless of increased efforts to make systems more secure, there has been a 400% increase in cybercrime related complaints while only three or Three actions that the article recommends Congress take are to improve the US government’s capabilities to identify, stop, and punish cybercrimes, to secure the United States’ election infrastructure and combat foreign disinformation efforts, and to re-establish the United States as a global leader in setting cyberspace policy. Further, the article criticizes the lack of details in the Trump Administration National Cyber Strategy surrounding potential metrics for monitoring and evaluating the impact of its many initiatives.
