A Tumultuous Week for Federal Cybersecurity Efforts
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Summary
Two weeks into his administration, President Trump has fired key U.S. cyber leaders and issued a flurry of executive orders impacting federal cybersecurity and technology policy, including:
Dismissed all 15 advisory committee members of the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB)
TSA chief David Pekoske fired, despite overseeing critical cybersecurity improvements across pipeline, rail and aviation sectors
AI: Trump’s administration supports AI systems that are “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas,” and calls for an “AI Action Plan”
Crypto: Trump’s crypto czar is entrepreneur and VC David Sacks, who argues Biden’s approach to AI and crypto “has driven innovation overseas”
Disinformation & Weaponization: Trump commuted the sentences of several convicted leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, and revoked the DOJ’s Kline Memo— wondrous news for conspiracy theorists and the exploiters of social media users.