The Trump Administration has issued a new executive order altering cybersecurity policies, seeking to amend key elements from Obama and Biden eras. It removes mandates for digital IDs for undocumented immigrants, limits sanctions to foreign actors only, and reverses requirements for software developers to validate their secure practices. Security leaders express concerns over these changes, arguing that they undermine safety and risk management while sending negative signals about cybersecurity priorities, which should remain a bipartisan commitment to enhance national resilience.
This order walks away from important lessons. Rolling back secure by design software attestations and limiting sanctions to only foreign actors sends the wrong message at the wrong time.
The shift toward voluntary guidance sounds nice, however, in practice it often means slower adoption and fewer safeguards. It's hard to see how this makes us safer.
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