An updated national strategy that will guide how the White House handles cyber defense and threats is being debated and should be released in the near future. That strategy will then inform a Defense Department cyber posture document that will likely come out in August.
Former Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert said before his recent resignation that the strategy was likely to include priorities from the cyber executive order issued in May 2017.
The three pillars of that executive order were: improving the security of federal government computer networks; leveraging government resources to better secure critical infrastructure, such as hospitals, banks and financial firms; and establishing norms of good behavior in cyberspace and punishing bad behavior.
