Cybersecurity takes a big hit in new Trump executive order
a year ago
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- #Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity practitioners express concerns over a recent White House executive order that removes key security requirements.
- The order, issued on June 6, reverses several cybersecurity directives from President Biden, some enacted just before his term ended.
- The Trump administration claims Biden's policies introduced 'problematic and distracting issues' into cybersecurity.
- Dropped or relaxed measures include quantum-safe encryption adoption, Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF), phishing-resistant login standards, BGP security tools, and digital identity encouragement.
- Biden's cybersecurity policies were largely driven by real-world threats, such as the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack.
- The SolarWinds attack involved Russian hackers breaching a widely used cloud service, affecting over 18,000 customers, including federal agencies.