Write a 5-page paper analyzing 2023’s National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP), which supports the NCS 2023, the Biden Administration’s approach to cybersecurity. Keep in mind that NIST recommends an approach to and best practices for cybersecurity. It is voluntary not a mandatory scheme. However, certain industries require the NIST approach. In addition, Congress has passed laws that mandate the NIST approach, especially for critical industries. A general outline is provided to provide a broad structure for the paper. You may use additional sections and add them to the paper. This is a lot of material, and the paper is brief. The idea is not to be overly comprehensive, but instead to convey that you understand and can clearly state what the NCS 2023 does, how it is expected to work, and to have you demonstrate your ability to analyze a policy and explain how it can be applied from a governance perspective.
In your paper, be sure to address each of the following prompts:
1. Explain your perspective on the NCSIP’s shift to partnering with and relying on the private sector. List 5 key elements of the plan and analyze them. Discuss whether you think this could be more or less successful than the federal government’s previous strategies, based on the elements in the plan and the articles written about it, that are in your resources. You will base your analysis on these, other resources you find and cite, and your experience if you are working in this field.
2. Explain what the NCSIP intends to accomplish and discuss how the private sector can improve the U.S. approach to governing privacy and protecting information. Explain how the transformational changes in technology that are occurring in cybersecurity will impact this strategy by choosing a topic in technology such as artificial intelligence, or digital identification, or the expansive use of mobile devices to provide an opinion on how technology influences how a policy is used.
3. Critique the evaluation of some authors of the NCSIP as a “game changer”; is their outlook too optimistic? Provide sources and rationale for your answer to that question. This means you read the articles provided here that discuss this topic and then support your opinion with information you cite from those articles, or other articles that you found through research.
4. Comment on how the NIST Framework improves the potential for the government or the private sector to manage and reduce cybersecurity risk. As an approach you can cite a section from the framework and explain how this supports risk management.
5. Write the paper with an organized, logical flow of information. Cite sufficient authoritative sources so that it is evident that your analysis is based on the documents provided other documents you find through your research. Please use a consistent citation style.