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Mar 22, 2023

Modernizing critical infrastructure protection policy: Seven perspectives on rewriting PPD21

By Will Loomis

In February of 2013, then President Obama signed a landmark executive order - Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD 21) - that defined how U.S. Departments and Agencies would provide a unity of government effort to strengthen and maintain US critical infrastructure. Almost a decade later, evolutions in both the threat landscape and the interagency community invite the US government to revise this critical policy.

Cybersecurity Infrastructure Protection

Tech at the Leading Edge

Mar 16, 2023

Building a shared lexicon for the National Cybersecurity Strategy

By the Cyber Statecraft Initiative

The 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy, released on March 3, represents the ambitions of the Biden Administration to chart a course within and through the cyber domain, staking out a critical set of questions and themes. These ambitions are reflected within the strategy’s pillars and titled sections, but also key words and phrases scattered throughout the […]

Cybersecurity National Security

Tech at the Leading Edge

Mar 3, 2023

How will the US counter cyber threats? Our experts mark up the National Cybersecurity Strategy

By Maia Hamin, Trey Herr, Will Loomis, Emma Schroeder, and Stewart Scott

On March 2, the White House released the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy. Read along with CSI staff, fellows, and experts for commentary on the document and its relationship with larger cybersecurity policy issues.

Cybersecurity Technology & Innovation

Will Loomis is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative under the Digital Forensic Research Lab. He is a Cyber Policy Advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Loomis previously served as an associate director with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, where he led the program’s work on critical infrastructure cybersecurity and software supply chain risk management. He was also formerly the chair of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy’s Cybersecurity Policy & Technology Discussion Group and an organizer for Policy at DEF CON.  

Originally from New York, he holds a BA in Political Science, with a focus on International Relations and Securities Studies from Colgate University. He is also a Certified Bourbon Steward.