5 cyber issues the next presidential administration needs to prioritize immediately

The United States remains highly vulnerable to the negative economic and security impacts posed by cyber threats. Despite the robust work of numerous administrations, our nation’s critical infrastructure still lacks resiliency and we have failed to secure our most systemically important entities. In order for this to change, cybersecurity must be an essential, day-one policy priority for the next administration.

Adversarial nation-states like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea continue to successfully target the nation’s critical infrastructure, threatening disruptions to power, water, and transportation at the time of their choosing. Nonstate criminal actors regularly exploit cyber vulnerabilities to extract ransomware payments from hospitals, schools, and small businesses across the country, disrupting operations and costing the U.S. economy tens of billions of dollars annually.