America’s 6 Pillars for Cybersecurity
March 10, 2026
The Trump administration has released its six-part strategy to protect the U.S. from emerging cyberthreats around the world.
The strategy comes as hospitals and health care continue to prioritize cybersecurity in an increasingly online world.
“Our adversaries and cyber criminals target our families, neighbors, small businesses, farmers, first responders, patients, and senior citizens in cyberspace,” the plan notes. “They disrupt critical services like healthcare, banking, food supply, and water treatment. They impose tremendous costs on our economy and make everyday goods less affordable.”
The key pillars of the new cybersecurity plan are to:
- Shape adversary behavior: Identify opportunities to disrupt adversary networks and scale national capabilities.
- Promote commonsense regulation: Streamline regulation to reduce compliance burdens and align with global standards.
- Modernize and secure federal government networks: Use new technologies to test and hunt for malicious actors on federal networks.
- Secure critical infrastructure: Promote U.S. technologies and move away from so-called "adversary vendors and products."
- Sustain superiority in critical and emerging technologies: Implement AI-cyber tools to detect, divert, and deceive threat actors.
- Build talent and capacity: Develop a pipeline that develops and shares talent.
The plan and a fact sheet are available online.