Goal 4.1: Safety, Security & Resiliency

Create a Safe, Secure, and Resilient Cyber Environment

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Ensure malicious actors are unable to effectively exploit cyberspace, impair its safe and secure use, or attack the Nation's information infrastructure. Cyber infrastructure forms the backbone of the Nation's economy and connects every aspect of our way of life. While the cyber environment offers the potential for rapid technological advancement and economic growth, a range of malicious actors may seek to exploit cyberspace for dangerous or harmful purposes, cause mass disruption of communications or other services, and attack the Nation's infrastructure through cyber means. Cyber infrastructure is also global, as is cyber criminality; a perpetrator in one country may use an Internet Service Provider in a second country to target a victim in a third country to steal funds from a financial institution in a fourth country. We must ensure the security and resilience of software that enables and controls systems and networks. International, public- and private-sector efforts are required to achieve these aims. To that end, the Department works closely with the private sector to address cybersecurity issues. In addition, a robust law enforcement and counterintelligence capability is essential to the success of our cybersecurity efforts.

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