Cyber Plan Would Hold Software Makers Responsible in Hacks (1)

The Biden administration is set to release an aggressive new national cybersecurity strategy on Thursday that seeks to shift the blame from companies that get hacked to software manufacturers and device makers, putting it on a potential collision course with big technology companies.

The 35-page strategy, shared in advance with a group of reporters, asserts that software makers must be “held liable when they fail to live up to the duty of care they owe consumers, businesses or critical infrastructure providers.”

“Responsibility must be placed on the stakeholders most capable of taking action to prevent bad outcomes, not on the ...