As President Biden prepares to hand over the government to the incoming Trump administration, he has issued a new cybersecurity executive order (EO) outlining an aggressive cyber-defense plan for today’s most dangerous national cyber threats — including China, and rampant software supply chain vulnerabilities across government and the private sector.
Sweeping and ambitious, the EO reads like a detailed US cybersecurity status report from the Biden administration, focused on laying groundwork for the incoming team. And with threats on the rise across the world, party affiliation and partisan predilections aside, America and Americans’ cybersecurity relies on a smooth handoff from Biden to Trump, experts say.
The signs are positive so far. The order is a reflection of a forthright and responsible transition to the Trump administration, according to Tom Cross, a cybersecurity strategist at WitFoo.
“Cybersecurity is not a partisan issue — everyone in the United States has a shared interest in protecting our nation against foreign cyber threats, such as spying and network disruption,” Cross wrote in a statement responding to the new Biden cybersecurity executive order. “By issuing this EO now, the Biden administration is able to put its best thinking on these topics in motion, giving the Trump administration time to put new leaders in place and develop its strategy going forward.”
The EO is a bookend to Biden’s 2021 cybersecurity executive order, issued early in his term, and reflects a country plagued by a new set of geopolitical adversaries armed with increasingly sophisticated technology, including generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).
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