{"id":31414,"date":"2021-02-04T17:42:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31414"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:42:52","slug":"us-taking-urgent-steps-to-improve-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31414","title":{"rendered":"US taking &#8216;urgent&#8217; steps to improve cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden said Thursday that his administration is launching an \u201curgent initiative\u201d to improve the nation\u2019s cybersecurity, pointing to concerns involving both Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve elevated the status of cyber issues within our government,\u201d Biden said as part of a national security speech at the State Department. \u201cWe are launching an urgent initiative to improve our capability, readiness and resilience in cyberspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden stressed that he planned to push back against Russian malign efforts in particular, including election interference and cyberattacks, emphasizing that \u201cthe days of the United States rolling over in the face of aggressive actions&#8230;are over.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden said Thursday that his&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31415,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31414\/revisions\/31415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}