Here are the instructions for a midterm paper in this course:

“The National Cybersecurity Strategy March 2023 provides a comprehensive and coordinated plan to address the growing threats to the United States’ digital ecosystem. It aims to shift the burden of cybersecurity away from individuals, small businesses, and local governments and onto the organizations that are most capable of reducing risks for everyone. The strategy seeks to build and enhance collaboration around five pillars: defending critical infrastructure, disrupting and dismantling threat actors, shaping market forces to drive security and resilience, investing in a resilient future, and forging international partnerships to pursue shared goals. Its implementation will protect investments in rebuilding America’s infrastructure, developing clean energy, and reshoring America’s technology and manufacturing base. In June 2025 the White House through an Executive Order amendment to the 2023 NCS directed the Secretary of Commerce, to act through the Director of NIST to execute several changes to national cybersecurity programs. However these changes are still in development, so for this mid-term assignment focus strictly on the tenants on the 2023 NCS.

National Cybersecurity Strategy March 2023.

For this assignment, you are required to analyze the National Cybersecurity Strategy March 2023 and write a 1000 word paper, with an overview and with a focus on one of the five pillars of the strategy.”