US wants hardware and software manufacturers held responsible for cyberattacks due to vulnerabilities

Hanno Labuschagne

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US wants hardware and software manufacturers held responsible for cyberattacks due to vulnerabilities

The Biden administration is set to release an aggressive new national cybersecurity strategy on Thursday that seeks to shift the blame from companies that get hacked to software manufacturers and device makers, putting it on a potential collision course with big technology companies.

The 35-page strategy, shared in advance with a group of reporters, asserts that software makers must be “held liable when they fail to live up to the duty of care they owe consumers, businesses or critical infrastructure providers.”

[Bloomberg]
 
Cybersecurity isn’t going to get better until the economic incentives change, and that’s not going to change until the political incentives change. The political incentives won’t change until there is political liability that comes from voter demands. Those demands aren’t going to be solely the results of insecurity. They will also be the result of believing that there’s a better alternative. It is our task to research, design, build, test, and field that better alternative—even though the market couldn’t care less right now.
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Schneier, 2021
 
Oh man this means forced Windows updates every 2 weeks!
 
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