U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. The administration spoke about response efforts to recent cyber attacks, including those tied to SolarWinds and the Microsoft Exchange Server (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Plans from the Biden administration to release product security rating system could raise the bar for security overall, say experts, but won t likely prevent the next SolarWinds or Microsoft hacks.
In a briefing to reporters Friday, senior official compared the forthcoming rating system to the health and safety letter grades at restaurants. And it is a concept that the cybersecurity community has batted around for some time: place a label on the box that says a product is or is not secure, and let consumers create a market around security.