Executive orders likely to drive cyber strategy actions

The new national cyber strategy is light on details, and implementation details could come in the form of executive orders and other actions to advance implementation of the White House’s goals.

The six-pillar national cyber strategy, released last Friday, runs a total of seven pages, including four pages of text. The Biden administration’s 2023 strategy ran 39 pages long, while the first Trump administration’s 2018 strategy totaled 40 pages.

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross had previewed that the strategy document would be a “short statement of intent and policy.” But some have criticized the dearth of details, and the brief document has many speculating what exactly the Trump administration will do to advance the strategy.

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