NATIONAL CYBER STRATEGY ments, innovation, risk management, policy, and standards to further the global Internet’s reach and to ensure interoperability, security, and stability. Finally, the United States will work with international partners, government, industry, civil society, technologists, and academics to improve the adoption and awareness of cybersecurity best practices worldwide. partners to implement policies and practices which allow them to be effective partners in the United States-led Cyber Deterrence Initiative. Priority Action ENHANCE CYBER CAPACITY BUILDING EFFORTS: Many United States allies and partners possess unique cyber capabilities that can complement our own. The United States will work to strengthen the capacity and interoperability of those allies and partners to improve our ability to optimize our combined skills, resources, capabilities, and perspectives against shared threats. Partners can also help detect, deter, and defeat those shared threats in cyberspace. In order for international partners to effectively protect their digital infrastructure and combat shared threats, while realizing the economic and social gains derived from the Internet and ICTs, the United States will continue to address the building blocks for organizing national efforts on cybersecurity. We will also aggressively expand efforts to share automated and actionable cyber threat information, enhance cybersecurity coordination, and promote analytical and technical exchanges. In addition, the United States will work to reduce the impact and influence of transnational cybercrime and terrorist activities by partnering with and strengthening the security and law enforcement capabilities of our partners to build their cyber capacity. Build International Cyber Capacity Capacity building equips partners to protect themselves and assist the United States in addressing threats that target mutual interests, while serving broader diplomatic, economic, and security goals. Through cyber capacity building initiatives, the United States builds strategic partnerships that promote cybersecurity best practices through a common vision of an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure Internet that encourages investment and opens new economic markets. In addition, capacity building allows for additional opportunities to share cyber threat information, enabling the United States Government and our partners to better defend domestic critical infrastructure and global supply chains, as well as focus whole-ofgovernment cyber engagements. Our leadership in building partner cybersecurity capacity is critical to maintaining American influence against global competitors. Building partner cyber capacity will empower international 26