Trump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rules

President Donald Trump signed An executive decree Friday which revises and raises cybersecurity policies implemented by its Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

In An information sheet on the White Housethe administration says that Biden Executive command 14144 – Signed a few days before the end of his presidency – was an attempt to “sneak out 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, said politico That “the fixation on the revocation of digital identification mandates favors questionable immigration benefits compared to proven cybersecurity services”.

Is a, trump Deleted Biden’s requirements Around testing the use of AI to defend energy infrastructure, the financing of federal research programs around the security of AI and the order of the Pentagon 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”. (Trump’s Silicon Valley Allies have Complains several times of 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”.