Just five months after President Joe Biden tapped Anne Neuberger to be his deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack took the country’s largest fuel pipeline offline for six days. It was something of a wakeup call: Across the country, gas prices spiked, fuel supplies plummeted, and there were gas lines up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
Neuberger, who was a top official at the National Security Agency for more than a decade before moving to the White House, has spent the last three years looking for ways not just to prevent attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure but also to mitigate the damage they can do if they happen.
Click Here spoke with Neuberger about her mitigation strategy, the growing cyberthreat from China and the White House’s latest cyber initiatives.
The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.
CLICK HERE: I wanted to start right away by asking you — is there a vision of a lasting, sustained management of cyber risk?
ANNE NEUBERGER: So traditionally we would think about cyber risk with questions like: How quickly has a network patched critical vulnerabilities? How…
