PILLAR III: PRESERVE PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH which we will impose consistent with our obligations and commitments to deter future bad behavior. The Administration will conduct interagency policy planning for the time periods leading up to, during, and after the imposition of consequences to ensure a timely and consistent process for responding to and deterring malicious cyber activities. The United States will work with partners when appropriate to impose consequences against malicious cyber actors in response to their activities against our nation and interests. Attribute and Deter Unacceptable Behavior in Cyberspace As the United States continues to promote consensus on what constitutes responsible state behavior in cyberspace, we must also work to ensure that there are consequences for irresponsible behavior that harms the United States and our partners. All instruments of national power are available to prevent, respond to, and deter malicious cyber activity against the United States. This includes diplomatic, information, military (both kinetic and cyber), financial, intelligence, public attribution, and law enforcement capabilities. The United States will formalize and make routine how we work with like-minded partners to attribute and deter malicious cyber activities with integrated strategies that impose swift, costly, and transparent consequences when malicious actors harm the United States or our partners. BUILD A CYBER DETERRENCE INITIATIVE: The imposition of consequences will be more impactful and send a stronger message if it is carried out in concert with a broader coalition of like-minded states. The United States will launch an international Cyber Deterrence Initiative to build such a coalition and develop tailored strategies to ensure adversaries understand the consequences of their malicious cyber behavior. The United States will work with like-minded states to coordinate and support each other’s responses to significant malicious cyber incidents, including through intelligence sharing, buttressing of attribution claims, public statements of support for responsive actions taken, and joint imposition of consequences against malign actors. Priority Actions LEAD WITH OBJECTIVE, COLLABORATIVE INTELLIGENCE: The IC will continue to lead the world in the use of all-source cyber intelligence to drive the identification and attribution of malicious cyber activity that threatens United States national interests. Objective and actionable intelligence will be shared across the United States Government and with key partners to identify hostile foreign nation states, and non-nation state cyber programs, intentions, capabilities, research and development efforts, tactics, and operational activities that will inform whole-of-government responses to protect American interests at home and abroad. COUNTER MALIGN CYBER INFLUENCE AND INFORMATION OPERATIONS: The United States will use all appropriate tools of national power to expose and counter the flood of online malign influence and information campaigns and non-state propaganda and disinformation. This includes working with foreign government partners as well as the private sector, academia, and civil society to identify, counter, and prevent the use of digital platforms for malign foreign influence operations while respecting civil rights and liberties. IMPOSE CONSEQUENCES: The United States will develop swift and transparent consequences, 21