5-12-17

President Donald Trump signs an executive order to tighten up Cyber Security in America. Critics say the order threatens to lead to a “haphazard patchwork of fixes” regarding how to deter online attacks.

On 11 May 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order implementing both a review of cybersecurity on the part of federal agencies and a strengthening of “critical infrastructure.”

The order said in part:

The executive branch has for too long accepted antiquated and difficult-to-defend IT. Effective risk management involves more than just protecting IT and data currently in place. It also requires planning so that maintenance, improvements, and modernization occur in a coordinated way and with appropriate regularity.

Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert told media outlets after the order was signed: “A lot of progress was made in the last administration, but not nearly enough.”

According to the order, several Cabinet-level departments — including Homeland Security, the Treasury, the Attorney General’s office and the Defense Department, among others — must submit a joint report on “strategic options for deterring adversaries and better protecting the American people from cyber threats.” Once that report is submitted, the Office of Management and Budget must submit its own report to the White House within 90 days.

From Paul Belgey

Trump Signs Cyber Security Executive Order

Security experts criticized the plan after its announcement for what they called a lack of feasibility and excessive reliance on the military. Dan Tentler, who founded the tech security firm the Phobos Group, told ZDNet that Trump’s administration could be forced to reissue the order:

They’re going to find themselves in a situation where they have zero intel on a chunk of the government and are faced with coming up with a written plan to fix problems … They won’t know what the problems are and without that there’s no way to draw up an actionable plan on how to fix anything. At best, we’ll see a kind of haphazard patchwork of fixes made of band-aids, superglue, and those little plastic bag ties from grocery store bread.

New Trump Executive Order Would Move Federal Cybersecurity to the Cloud

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday targeting the federal government’s notorious vulnerability to cyber threats, mandating one set of standards and making the heads of each government agency responsible for security.

“The United States invented the internet and we need to better use it,” Tom Bossert, Trump’s homeland security adviser, said at a briefing on the order for reporters. “There will always be risk, and we need to address that risk.”

Trump had been scheduled to sign the order on Jan. 31, but that signing was postponed without explanation.

The new order puts responsibility for cybersecurity squarely on the shoulders of the director of every federal agency, making it more difficult for executives to pass the buck to their information technology staffs every time a new breach is discovered.

“Risk management decisions made by agency heads can affect the risk to the executive branch as a whole,” according to the order. “Effective risk management requires agency heads to lead integrated teams of senior executives with expertise in IT, security, budgeting, acquisition, law, privacy and human resources.”  READ MORE

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