How should the U.S. respond to state-sponsored cyberattacks?

It’s no secret that U.S. government agencies and businesses are the target of around-the-clock cyber intrusions, many carried out by or at the behest of foreign nation-states.

But how exactly should the feds respond to those incursions?

Ask a random sample of Americans and you’ll likely get a very different answer than if you polled the State Department.

In a recent flash survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults commissioned by the security vendor Vormetric, a quarter of the respondents said that the United States should cut off all ties to any nation responsible for compromising U.S. government data.

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