Five updates on the Trump admin’s cybersecurity agenda
Five updates on the Trump admin’s cybersecurity agenda
Publish Date: 2026-02-04 17:20:00
Source Domain: federalnewsnetwork.com
A new national cybersecurity strategy, an update on landmark cyber incident-reporting rules and the development of a new artificial intelligence security collaboration group are all in the pipeline for the coming weeks and months.
Trump administration officials discussed a range of cyber policy updates at the Information Technology Industry Council’s Intersect Summit in Washington on Tuesday.
Six-pillar national cyber strategy
White House National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross previewed a forthcoming national cybersecurity strategy, saying it would be out “sooner rather than later.” Cairncross said the strategy will feature “six pillars,” including “shaping adversary behavior.”
“It’s an important piece of this puzzle for us,” he added. “What I mean by that is, right now, in many facets of this equation, response to cyber crime, to things that seek to harm us in cyberspace, is very reactive in a lot of ways. We’re looking for a strategic way to approach these different things – be it nation states, criminal nation-state gangs, criminal actors, scam centers, ransomware groups – in a way that strategically we can work to dent the incentive to engage in that behavior.”
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Other pillars include “the regulatory environment and working with industry across different sectors to streamline that in a way that is productive, so that form follows function, rather than a compliance checklist,” Cairncross continued.
The four remaining pillars include securing and modernizing the federal government; securing critical infrastructure; maintaining dominance in emerging technologies; and mitigating the cyber skills and workforce gap, Cairncross explained.
“In each of those different pillars, we have various lines of effort, many of which are underway right now,” he said. “I only have so much time in this job, and any administration is time-limited. And so what we are…
