Cyber experts, Democrats urge Trump administration not to break up cyber coordination in State reorganization

Cyber experts are urging Congress to ensure that a planned reorganization of the State Department continues to integrate cyber diplomacy at the highest levels of decision-making, while providing the resources, staffing and structure necessary to project American digital security policy abroad with both allies and adversaries.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s reorganization plan would split up the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, with its economic team and portfolio reporting to the undersecretary of economic growth, energy and environment, while its cybersecurity mission and personnel would go to a newly created Bureau of Emerging Threats and report to the undersecretary for arms control and international security.

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