Completed draft of cyber strategy emphasizes imposing costs, industry partnership

A forthcoming Trump administration cyber strategy will have six pillars, two of which will be deterring malicious hackers and partnering with industry, executive branch officials said Tuesday.

Top figures in the administration have been slowly unveiling details of the strategy, with a draft being currently reviewed by agencies. It reportedly is taking shape earlier in the second Trump administration than it did in the preceding Biden administration, which published its strategy in 2023.

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said the six-pillar strategy “is going to be a short statement of intent and policy, and then it will be paired very quickly with action items and deliverables.” The administration is striving “to make sure that there is a single, coordinated strategy in this domain, in a way that hasn’t happened before,” he said at the 2025 Aspen Cyber Summit.

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