For years, cybersecurity strategy has been a mostly defensive game.
Block the breach, patch the hole, repeat.
In his first public address as National Cyber Director, Sean Cairncross made it clear: that loop is about to break. The U.S. is getting ready to go on offense.
Cairncross called for a strategy that pushes risk back onto foreign adversaries and ends the bureaucratic turf wars holding back coordination.
It’s a shift in posture, with high-stakes implications for federal systems, international alliances, and how tech leaders everywhere think about deterrence.
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