The cyber defense crisis

[Commentary] The resignation of Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta was overdue, but hardly sufficient. President Barack Obama needs to address more directly how this breach came about, who carried it out, what the government will do in response and, most important, how to take cybersecurity to a higher level. Put bluntly, adversaries are pummeling the United States. Neither the president nor Congress has treated cyberattacks as the national crisis they have become. President Obama has been way too passive about China. He should sound a klaxon to Beijing, and if that does not get the regime’s attention, retaliate. The technical outages at United Airlines and the New York Stock Exchange in recent days underscore how dependent we are on data networks. Leaving them vulnerable to thieves and espionage is an act of inexcusable negligence.