Customers are Being Used as Cyber “Crash Test Dummy,” Says CISA Director

The CEO of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, referred to the current state of commercial cybersecurity as “unsustainable,” and she argued that businesses, consumers, and the government as a whole needed to change their expectations so that users, not the major software and hardware manufacturers, would be held accountable for insecure products.

A policy from the Biden administration that will place more of an emphasis on controlling the security and safety design decisions made by technology makers is anticipated to be released in the coming days.

In a speech given on February 27 at Carnegie Mellon University, Easterly claimed that American lawmakers, consumers, and users of third-party products had allowed software programmes rife with flaws or hardware that was vulnerable on practically every level to become the standard.

“We’ve normalized the fact that the cybersecurity burden is placed disproportionately on the shoulders of consumers and small organizations, who are often least aware of the threat and least capable of protecting themselves. We’ve norm

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