Joe Biden, who expects to be inaugurated as President on Jan. 20, demanded modernization of the U.S. military in the face of cyber threats, such as the alleged SolarWind hack that has been blamed on Russia. “We have to be able to innovate and reimagine our defenses against growing threats in new realms like cyberspace,” Biden said, during a speech in Delaware after he received a briefing from national security officials. He pointed to Russia and China as the alleged threats and said that “modernizing our defense priorities to better deter aggression in the future, rather than continuing to over-invest in legacy systems designed to address the threats of the past” would be necessary.
“We are still learning about the extent of the SolarWinds hack and the vulnerabilities that have been exposed. As I said last week — this attack constitutes a grave risk to our national security,” Biden went on. “We need to close the gap between where our capabilities are now and where they need to be to better deter, detect, disrupt, and respond to these sorts of intrusions in the future,” he added.
