President Biden and leaders from the 30 nations that make up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization endorsed a new cyber defense policy Monday that calls for invoking its self-defense clause against cyberattacks from adversaries on a "case-by-case basis." Article 5 states that if a NATO allied nation is attacked, it would be considered a mutual act of violence against all other members who will take actions to respond. "We have agreed that we should change the conditions for threat actors by increasing the costs and denying potential benefits over cyberattacks," Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary general, told reporters today during a virtual Defense Writers Group event. "This means partly to call out cyberattacks as we, for instance, did with SolarWinds, but also with a veiled cyberattack on [the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons]. It's about hardening our own cyber defenses and then it's also about offensive cyber."
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