Biden Prodded to Take Muscular Approach to Cybersecurity (Feb 2021)The Solar Winds hack, which was revealed in December, highlighted the challenge and amped up the pressure on the federal government to do more to secure the nation's systems. A rare joint statement issued in January by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence, stated: "An advanced persistent threat actor [API], likely Russian in origin, is responsible for most or all of the recently discovered, ongoing cyber compromises of both government and non-governmental networks.