President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that revises and rolled cyber security policies that bring in place by its democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In a White House newsletterAdministration claims that Biden Executive command 14144 – Signed days before the end of his presidency – it was an attempt to “slip problematic and fragmented issues in cyber security policy”.
Among other things, Biden’s order encouraged organizations to “consider accepting digital identity documents” when public benefits require identity. Trump has hit this part of the class, with the White House now saying that this approach is in danger of “widespread abuse, allowing illegal immigrants to gain inappropriate access to public benefits”.
However, Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Foundation for the Defense of the Democracy Center for the Governor and Technological Innovation, said to Politico That “stabilizing the recall of digital identity commands gives priority to questionable immigration benefits in relation to the proven benefits of cyberspace”.
In AI, Trump abolished Biden’s requirements Around the test of the use of AI to defend energy infrastructure, fund federal research programs around AI’s security and the guidance of the Pentagon to “use AI models for cyberspace”.
The White House describes its moves to AI as a redefinition of AI Cybersecurity Strategy “to identify and manage vulnerable points rather than censorship.” (Trump’s Silicon Valley allies have repeatedly complained about the threat of AI “censorship”)
Trump’s order also removed the requirements that organizations begin to use quantum -resistant “as soon as possible”. And removed the requirements that federal contractors confirm the safety of their software – the White House describes these requirements as “unproved and ongoing software processes that prioritized compliance controls on real security investments”.
Returning even further, Trump’s executive mandate abolishes Obama’s policies over sanctions for cyberspace in the United States. These sanctions can now be applied only to “foreign malicious actors”. The White House says this will prevent “abuse of domestic political opponents” and will clarify that “sanctions do not apply to election activities”.
