Experts insist Trump administration’s cyber strategy is already paying off
Experts insist Trump administration’s cyber strategy is already paying off
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Publish Date: 2026-03-23 17:30:00
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration’s two-week old cyber strategy that aims to promote more proactive, offensive actions while bolstering federal networks and critical infrastructure, is a significant shift that’s already materializing in meaningful ways, a group of experts said Monday at the RSAC 2026 Conference.
Despite the federal government’s absence from the industry’s largest annual gathering, and the long-anticipated document’s brevity, representatives from a major cybersecurity vendor, consulting, venture capital and law firm were quick to defend and evangelize the administration’s strategic actions in cyberspace.
The freshly-released strategy puts the federal government on firm footing to move beyond deterrence and into action, said David Lashway, partner and global leader of cybersecurity and national security at Sidley Austin.
“We are going to take offensive and defensive action with the most powerful cyber capability that the world’s ever seen, and hopefully will ever know,” he said.
This doesn’t mean, as some industry observers have suggested, that the Trump administration is pushing private companies to hack back.
The scale and whole of government response is the key difference between the latest federal cyber strategy and what administrations have called for over the past decade, Lashway said.
Instead of relying on private lawyers to get a nationwide injunction and collaborate with dozens of governments for massive takedowns, or government agencies collaborating with private security companies on a limited basis, the strategy aims to mobilize “the massive infrastructure and capability of the United States in a more coordinated way,” he added.
This strategic pivot won’t achieve all of its objectives immediately, but it’s already showing signs of impact, according to Lashway. “It’s been different since they issued the strategy,” he said. “We’ve already noticed…
