What Biden’s national security strategy says about cybersecurity.

It’s well known that Trump was no fan of international cooperation, including when it came to tech diplomacy. The Obama White House continued this expansion of tech-focused diplomacy, conducting a Cyberspace Policy Review at the beginning of the administration, establishing the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues in 2011 at the State Department, and writing the country’s first International Strategy for Cyberspace. The wheels of this pivot are already in motion: In April, the State Department launched a new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, tasked with addressing national security, economic, and rights issues associated with digital technologies and policy; in September, Nathaniel Fick was sworn in as the inaugural U.S. ambassador at large for cyberspace and digital policy, the bureau’s new head. Most recently, U.S. officials worked for months with allies and partners to get Doreen Bogdan-Martin elected to the International Telecommunication Union, the U.N.’s tech agency, over the Russian candidate Rashid Ismailov. So, yes, the road forward for global tech engagement is a rocky one—but at least the new national security strategy is sending the U.S. in a better direction.