Rob Knake · May 25, 2026 · 1 min read

Cyber Strategy Development


Excited to be in Tallin for CyCon! Doing a workshop on how we developed the Biden Administration's National Cybersecurity Strategy. Using this blogpost to collect the resources I cite in my talk:

US Cyber Strategy Documents

  1. PPD 63 (Clinton 1998)

  2. 2000 Clinton Plan

  3. 2003 Bush Strategy

  4. 2009 Obama Cyberspace Policy Review

  5. 2018 Trump Strategy

  6. 2023 Biden Strategy

  7. 2024 Implementation Plan

  8. 2026 Trump Strategy


Sample One Page Strategies

  1. Biden Strategy One-Pager (GAO)

  2. General Montgomerey's D-Day Invasion Plan

  3. The 2018 Trump Counterterrorism Strategy


Strategy Development Tools

  1. The GAO Strategy Framework

  2. The Back of the Napkin

  3. What Matters (OKR Resource)

  4. Cyberspace Policy Review RFC Responses

  5. Many Strategies Fail Because They're Not Actually Strategies