Trump revokes digital identity actions in new cyber executive order

President Donald Trump has signed a new cybersecurity executive order that continues many of the policies of his predecessors, while also marking out some key changes in the approach to software security, digital identity and more.

The new executive order, “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” modifies many aspects of a cyber EO signed by President Joe Biden in January. It also makes changes to executive orders signed by President Barack Obama to focus federal cybersecurity law enforcement efforts on foreign nationals.

But Trump’s new EO continues key aspects Biden directives, including an effort to strengthen the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s role in defending civilian federal networks.

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