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EOs likely to drive cyber strategy actions<\/a><\/p>\n

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The new national cyber strategy is light on details, and implementation details could come in the form of executive orders and other actions to advance implementation of the White House\u2019s goals.
\nThe six-pillar national cyber strategy, released last Friday, runs a total of seven pages, including four pages of text. The Biden administration\u2019s 2023 strategy ran 39 pages long, while the first Trump administration\u2019s 2018 strategy totaled 40 pages.
\nNational Cyber Director Sean Cairncross had previewed that the strategy document would be a \u201cshort statement of intent and policy.\u201d But some have criticized the dearth of details, and the brief document has many speculating what exactly the Trump administration will do to advance the strategy.
\nDuring a webinar Wednesday, Venable senior director Caitlin Clarke suggested \u201cwhere we will see clarity is particularly in implementing executive orders.\u201d She pointed to the cybercrime executive order President Donald Trump also signed out on Friday afternoon.]]><\/p>\n

Clarke served under the Biden administration in both the National Security Council and the Office of the National Cyber Director.
\n\u201cI would not expect a big spreadsheet, like the implementation plan under the last administration,\u201d Clarke said. \u201cI would expect to see similar to what the administration has done on AI, but an implementation through executive action, through multiple executive orders that are tied to the different pillars.\u201d
\nThe Biden administration published detailed implementation plans associated with its national cyber strategy. Those plans identified specific actions and agencies responsible for spearheading each initiative.
\nBy contrast, Clarke expects executive orders and other actions from the Trump administration will directly lay out who is responsible for advancing the Trump administration\u2019s new strategy.
\n\u201cPost-quantum cryptography, things around cyber diplomacy, around the workforce, I would expect to see executive orders or memoranda or action taken out of the White House to really define what the next steps are in those areas,\u201d she said.
\nDuring the Biden administration, progress on cyber policy issues was reportedly bogged down by disagreements and an unclear delegation of roles between ONCD and the NSC. ONCD was established by Congress in 2021. It\u2019s responsible for producing and leading national cyber strategy, but the NSC also plays a role in cyber issues.
\nAri Schwartz, former senior director for cyber at the NSC during the Obama administration, said the NSC is likely to play a big role under the new cyber strategy, especially on offensive cyber and deterrence actions prioritized under pillar one of the document. But he suggested ONCD is now leading overarching cyber policy issues under the Trump administration.]]><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just that in general, ONCD is being given a lift here in terms of doing what Congress really intended for ONCD to do and take over more of that role,\u201d Schwartz said. \u201cThat was harder to do before, when you had the NSC in place doing a lot of that work already when [ONCD] was stood up in the last administration.\u201d
\nWhile Cairncross has previewed some activities, for now, outside cyber policy experts are largely reading the tea leaves in the short strategy document to predict what steps ONCD and the Trump administration will take next.
\nThe strategy\u2019s focus on cybersecurity tools enabled by artificial intelligence, for instance, \u201csignals a shift about from reactive incident response towards predictive detection and automated analysis using advanced tools to identify a malicious activity more rapidly,\u201d Clarke said.
\n\u201cThe emphasis on testing and hunting for malicious actors reflects an operational posture,\u201d she added. \u201cThis is not passive defense. It\u2019s continuous monitoring. It\u2019s active detection inside federal systems.\u201d
\nFor federal networks specifically, the strategy also focuses on \u201cmodernization\u201d and the shift toward cloud computing.
\n\u201cIn my mind, it\u2019s about embedding resilience into system architecture, rather than layering security on top of outdated infrastructure,\u201d Clarke said. \u201cAnd importantly, I think federal modernization is framed as leading by example. If the federal government is calling on critical infrastructure and private industry to strengthen resilience, it must demonstrate that they themselves are doing it internally first.\u201d
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