Cybersecurity pros now praise Trump’s policies

[Peter1469]

Cybersecurity pros now praise Trump’s policies

It took a long time for the US to decide to use its offensive cybersecurity tools. Good that we finally have.

When President Trump took the oath of office in January 2017, cybersecurity industry officials were anxious — to put it mildly.

They fretted about the possibility of whiplash-inducing policy shifts that would scrap years of progress protecting government and industry from cyberattacks.


They feared that the outsider president — who’d already called on supporters to boycott Apple when it refused to help the FBI crack into its own encryption --- might go to open war with the cyber and tech companies whose help he needed to secure the nation.


Most importantly, they lamented how the incoming president refused to accept intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia was responsible for a hacking and influence operation that upended the election that brought him to office. They feared Trump, who famously suggested a lone 400-pound hacker could have been responsible, would stop naming and shaming its greatest foes in cyberspace.
What a difference two years can make.

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[MisterVeritis]

Cybersecurity pros now praise Trump’s policies

It took a long time for the US to decide to use its offensive cybersecurity tools. Good that we finally have.



Read the rest at the link.

Russia did not hack the election. The author should be more careful.

[alexa]

Russia did not hack the election. The author should be more careful.

That's not what he said. You should read more carefully.

I suspect the reason Trump's cyber policies are earning praise is because he doesn't have any interest in them.

If he did, he would have reversed them because of his pathological hatred of anything Obama.

Kiersten Todt, a former White House official, directed an Obama-era cybersecurity policy commission tasked with making recommendation to the next presidential administration. Two years later, she said, it’s striking how many of that commission’s recommendations — from addressing the threat of botnets to surging cooperation between government and the private sector — are being put into effect.

[MisterVeritis]

That's not what he said. You should read more carefully.

I suspect the reason Trump's cyber policies are earning praise is because he doesn't have any interest in them.

If he did, he would have reversed them because of his pathological hatred of anything Obama.

I was responding to this, "Most importantly, they lamented how the incoming president refused to accept intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia was responsible for a hacking and influence operation "

[MisterVeritis]

I suspect the reason Trump's cyber policies are earning praise is because he doesn't have any interest in them.

If he did, he would have reversed them because of his pathological hatred of anything Obama.

President Obama was damage. President Trump is repair, restore, and improve. Who doesn't hate damage?

[alexa]

I was responding to this, "Most importantly, they lamented how the incoming president refused to accept intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia was responsible for a hacking and influence operation "

They were.

[Peter1469]

That's not what he said. You should read more carefully.

I suspect the reason Trump's cyber policies are earning praise is because he doesn't have any interest in them.

If he did, he would have reversed them because of his pathological hatred of anything Obama.

Obama did not conduct offensive cyberops.

[Tahuyaman]

I was responding to this, "Most importantly, they lamented how the incoming president refused to accept intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia was responsible for a hacking and influence operation "

I would think that several nations have hacked or attempted to hack and influence our political system. Of course we really don't know what happened in 2016 because we are only taking the word of the DNC/Clinton campaign and that evidence has been destroyed by now.

[Tahuyaman]

Obama did not conduct offensive cyberops.

It's likely he did against people or domestic organizations which opposed his policies.

[alexa]

Obama did not conduct offensive cyberops.

They're implementing policies that were written by a commission Obama set up.