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In January 2015, President Obama announced a new cybersecurity legislative proposal. This proposal was made in an effort to prepare the US from the expanding number of cyber crimes. In this proposal, President Obama outlined three main efforts to work towards a more secure cyberspace for the US. The first main effort emphasized the importance of enabling cybersecurity information sharing. By enabling this, President Obama's proposal encouraged information sharing between the government and the private sector. This would allow the government to know what main cyber threats private firms are facing and would then allow the government to provide liability protection to those firms that did share their information. Furthermore, this would give the government a better idea of what the US needs to be protected against. Another main effort that was emphasized in this proposal was to modernize the law enforcement authorities to make them more equipped to properly deal with cyber crimes by giving them the tools they need in order to do so. It would also update classifications of cyber crimes and consequences. One way this would be done would be by making it a crime for overseas selling of financial information. Another goal of this effort is to place cyber crimes prosecutable. The last major effort of this legislative proposal was to require businesses to report data breaching to consumers if their personal information had been sacrificed. By requiring companies to do so, consumers are aware of when they are in danger of identity theft.

In February 2016, President Obama developed a Cybersecurity National Security Action Plan (CNAP). This plan was made to create long-term actions and strategies in an effort to protect the US against cyber threats. The focus of this plan was to inform the public about the growing threat of cyber crimes, improve cybersecurity protections, protects personal information of Americans, and to inform Americans on how to control digital security. One of the highlights of this plan include creating a "Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity". The goal of this is to create a Commission that consists of a diverse group of thinkers with perspectives that can contribute to make recommendations on how to create a stronger cybersecurity for the public and private sector. The second highlight of the plan is to change Government IT. This new Government IT will make it so that a more secure IT can be put in place. The third highlight of this plan is to give Americans knowledge on how they can secure their online accounts and avoid theft of their personal information through multi-factor authentication. The fourth highlight of this plan is to invest 35 percent more money that was invested in 2016 into cybersecurity.