Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review
Summary: The Trump administration's second-year policy changes weakened federal cybersecurity and anti-corruption capacity: it fired CISA director Chris Krebs, dismissed all 15 members of the Cyber Safety Review Board mid-investigation into Chinese intrusions at nine U.S. telecom providers, and CISA lost roughly a third of its workforce, with 65 percent of remaining staff furloughed during the October shutdown. The administration also suspended the Corporate Transparency Act, dropped SEC crypto cases against Coinbase, Binance and Justin Sun, pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, and halted work on a coordinated effort against Russian sabotage and cyberattacks.
What you should know: The Cyber Safety Review Board was dissolved while writing its report on Chinese government intrusions into at least nine U.S. telecom providers, and CISA now has about 900 employees working without pay during the shutdown - the agency that would help you respond to that intrusion is a third smaller and facing another $491 million in cuts.
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