US to ‘Use All Instruments of National Power’ Against Malign Cyber Actors

A member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance uses a website that monitors global cyberattacks on his computer at an office in Dongguan, China's southern Guangdong province on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

The Biden administration will use all instruments of national power—up to and including military action—to neutralize cyber threats to the United States.

Ensuring that the United States used a whole-of-government approach to combat cyber threats was necessary to deter adversarial actors, be they nation states or individuals, said acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden.