Make Cybersecurity Great Again? Cybersecurity Challenges — And Opportunities — For The Trump Administration

The Trump Administration has taken office at a time when cybersecurity has increasingly entered the public consciousness as a major challenge facing both the United States government and the business community.  Cyberattacks from both criminal and state actors have bedeviled businesses and roiled politics over the past year.  Against this backdrop, the administration has professed a strong commitment to cybersecurity, for instance designating former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as a high-profile cybersecurity liaison to the private sector, and drafting an early Executive Order on cybersecurity in federal agencies.  However, the administration has remained characteristically reluctant to advance a concrete cybersecurity and data privacy agenda, remaining far vaguer on the issue than the prior Obama and Bush Administrations.  Immediate attention to cybersecurity has also seemingly been placed on hold as the Administration focuses on defending its Executive Orders