President Donald Trump signed a decree on Friday which revises and rejects the cybersecurity policies put in place by his Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In an information sheet on the White House, the administration affirms that the executive decree of Biden 14144 – signed a few days before the end of its presidency – was an attempt to “distort the problematic and distracting problems in cybersecurity policy”.
Among other things, Biden’s order has encouraged agencies to “consider accepting digital identity documents” when public services programs require an identity document. Trump struck this part of the Order, the White House now affirming that this approach risks “generalized abuses by allowing illegal immigrants to go badly for public advantages”.
However, Mark Montgomery, principal director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies on Cyber ​​and Technological Innovation, told Politico that “the fixation on the revocation of digital identification mandates favors questionable immigration services on the proven cybersecurity services”.
On the AI, Trump deleted Biden’s requirements concerning the use of the use of AI to defend energy infrastructure, the financing of federal research programs around AI security and the Pentagon management “to use AI models for cybersecurity”.
The White House describes its movements on AI as the refocusing of the AI ​​cybersecurity strategy “towards the identification and management of vulnerabilities, rather than censorship”. (The Allies of the Silicon Valley of Trump have complained several times at the threat of the “censorship” of the AI.)))
Trump’s order has also deleted the requirements that agencies are starting to use quantum resistant encryption “as soon as possible”. And he deleted the requirements that federal entrepreneurs bear witness to the security of their software – the White House describes these requirements as “unproven and heavy software accounting processes which have hierarchi the compliance control lists compared to authentic security investments”.
Going up even further, Trump’s executive order repeals Obama’s policies concerning sanctions for cybersecurity attacks against the United States; These sanctions can now only be applied to “malicious foreign actors”. The White House says that this will prevent “improper use against internal political opponents” and specify that “the sanctions do not apply to activities related to the elections”.
