{"id":687568,"date":"2021-08-26T16:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=687568"},"modified":"2021-08-26T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:50:59","slug":"biden-declares-cybersecurity-core-national-security-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-declares-cybersecurity-core-national-security-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Declares Cybersecurity \u2018Core National Security Challenge\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-declares-cybersecurity-core-national-security-challenge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=687568&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.049382716049\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The president&#8217;s statement came on day before Afghanistan attack<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234864245-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234864245-scaled-e1630010247446.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234864245-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234864245-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234864245-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234864245-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234864245-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234864245-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPresident Joe Biden on Aug. 25 \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/santi-ruiz\/\" title=\"Posts by Santi Ruiz\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Santi Ruiz<\/a> \u2022 August 26, 2021 4:42 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"59.942128189172\">\n<p>President Joe Biden on Wednesday called cybersecurity &#8220;the core national security challenge we are facing&#8221; as the military struggled to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Biden delivered his comments during a White House summit with the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and other tech and Wall Street companies. The president called on tech leaders to &#8220;raise the bar&#8221; on cybersecurity, noting that &#8220;the federal government can\u2019t meet this challenge alone.&#8221; China and Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-administration-wont-sanction-china-for-hacking-u-s-servers\/\">launched<\/a> major cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure and private companies in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/pentagon-explosion-outside-kabul-airport\/\">suicide attack<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday at Kabul&#8217;s Hamid Karzai International Airport killed 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghan civilians in one of the deadliest bombings of the war in Afghanistan. The evacuation from Afghanistan has run into snags, and White House and Pentagon officials have admitted they will not evacuate every American by the August 31 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Cyber hawks have criticized Biden for not prioritizing cybersecurity since he entered the White House. Lawmakers in March&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/lawmakers-say-overhaul-needed-to-protect-fed-agencies-from-foreign-hacks\/\">criticized<\/a> existing federal resources devoted to cybersecurity, saying they&#8217;re woefully underprepared to face threats from foreign actors. The president waited several months to nominate a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/10\/cybersecurity-202-biden-new-cisa-director-will-confront-host-complex-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">director<\/a> of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s comments on cybersecurity mark a reversal from his previous threat assessments. Speaking to American service members in June, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-climate-change-greatest-threat-us-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;climate change was the greatest threat to national security, adding, &#8220;This is not a joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration The president&#8217;s statement came on day before Afghanistan attack  President Joe Biden on Aug. 25 \/ Getty Images  Santi Ruiz \u2022 August &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}