# Experts debate US national cyber strategy priorities

Published: 2022-02-28 · Severity: low · Sectors: government-national, energy, infrastructure
Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/21142597-8852-5fda-943e-cde6500f2467/experts-debate-us-national-cyber-strategy-priorities

> Atlantic Council panel of cyber policy experts discusses what should shape the upcoming US national cyber strategy, citing SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline as cautionary examples.

This is an opinion/discussion piece from the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative, presenting five cybersecurity policy experts' views on the structure, goals, and measures of success for a future US national cyber strategy, prompted by the UK's newly published Government Cyber Security Strategy and anticipation of a US equivalent. The panelists—including Jason Healey, Joshua Rovner, Emma Schroeder, Camille Stewart, and Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar—debate topics such as public-private collaboration, offense/defense balance, measuring strategic effectiveness, and organizational roles across government agencies.

Notable threat references are used illustratively rather than as new reporting: Tiirmaa-Klaar cites the 2020 SolarWinds supply-chain compromise (attributing the intrusion to Sandworm, though mainstream attribution for that specific campaign is APT29/Cozy Bear) and the 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident as evidence of insufficient private-sector cybersecurity investment in the United States. Estonia's resilience to the 2017 NotPetya ransomware outbreak is offered as a positive case study of rigorous patching and public-private threat-sharing. The article is fundamentally a policy and strategy discussion piece with no new technical findings, indicators, or active threat campaigns described.

## Mentioned in this report

- Threat actors: Sandworm
- Malware: NotPetya

Source reporting: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/the-5x5/the-5x5-whats-in-a-cyber-strategy

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