Absolute’s 2023 Resilience Index: America’s Cybersecurity

Recently, the White House has come up with a new national cybersecurity strategy called ‘Absolute’s 2023 Resilience Index’, it will hold software companies responsible for products’ security.
The document unveiled by the government includes regulations for vulnerable critical infrastructure firms and software liability for exploitable vulnerabilities. 

Following this, the administration said that it is collaborating with Congress to create a new law that can combat cybersecurity matters effectively. This index has been proposed after hacking incidents that threatened major public services during the first year of the Biden administration. 

In addition to this, the federal government is also planning to use its regulatory and purchasing power to encourage software manufacturing companies that are crucial to the economy and national security to improve their cybersecurity measures. 

Jen Easterly, director of CISA, has urged technology companies to take responsibility for the cybersecurity of their products, which are crucial to society.
Further, she questioned why the blame for security breaches falls on companies for not patching vulnerabilities, rather than on the manufacturers who created the technology requiring multiple patches. 

“We often blame a company today that has a security breach because they didn’

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