 In May 2024, the State Department released the International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy to lay out the Administration’s affirmative vision for digital solidarity, multilateral engagement, coalition building, and strengthening international cyber capacity. A key element of this strategy is working with allies and partners to secure the digital ecosystem so that technologies being designed and deployed today are secure against the threats of tomorrow. The Administration is prioritizing research and development, standards development, and supply chain security and diversification for technologies such as 5G and 6G, cloud infrastructure and data centers, semiconductors, undersea cables, and satellite communications. The State Department’s International Technology Security and Innovation (ITSI) Fund provides $100 million per year over five years to diversify the global semiconductor supply chain, promote secure ICT connectivity, provide agile response programs, and protect Americans’ sensitive data from foreign adversaries. The State Department is also strengthening its own expertise and capacity domestically and overseas with expanded training programs and will field a trained cyber-digital policy officer at every mission engaging on these issues by the end of 2024. Advancing a Rights-Respecting Digital Ecosystem The United States is working with like-minded allies and partners to ensure that the digital world reflects and reinforces our shared democratic values. Countries around the world are seeking to advance an affirmative, human rights-respecting vision of technology’s benefits, while simultaneously working to counter the misuse of technology and the rise of digital authoritarianism. To meet this challenge, the 2023 and 2024 Summits for Democracy highlighted the commitment of the United States and over 70 countries to advancing an affirmative vision of an open, free, global, interoperable, reliable, accessible, and secure Internet; combatting the proliferation and misuse of digital technologies like commercial spyware; and shaping emerging technologies to align with democratic values and human rights. Many of those countries work alongside the United States to support Internet freedom and protect human rights worldwide through the Freedom Online Coalition. In 2023, the United States assumed the chair of the Freedom Online Coalition and strengthened the coalition’s work to shape the standards and norms that underpin Internet freedom. CISA launched the High Risk Community Protection Initiative to partner with communities who are at heightened risk of advanced persistent threat targeting and have limited capacity to provide for their own defense. CISA has partnered with civil society organizations and technology companies to develop resources which advance the cybersecurity of civil society. Through the Strategic Dialogue on Cybersecurity of Civil Society Under Threat of Transnational Repression, CISA has worked with stakeholders in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Japan, New Zealand, and Norway to advance global efforts to strengthen the cybersecurity of civil society and improve its resilience to transnational repression. The Administration has mobilized a government-wide effort to counter the proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware, one of the most intrusive forms of digital repression. Issued in 2024 REPORT 26 ON THE CYBERSECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES POSTURE