The United States is taking damage in the global cyberwar, and Trump won’t be able to fix that without help.
Two months into his presidency, we still don’t know what Donald Trump’s promise to put America first will mean in cyberspace, where hackers have repeatedly exposed the nation as vulnerable.
Last week, the president’s assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, Tom Bossert , made his first extensive public remarks since taking the job. He promised that Trump’s much-anticipated cybersecurity executive order would be out in the “coming weeks or months.” He hinted that the administration would first focus on securing federal networks, reducing botnets, and “deterring our adversaries.
