Trump is also unlikely to continue the campaign for the Biden administration Limit the spread of commercial spyware technologiesWho Totalitarian governments have used Harassing journalists, civil rights protesters, and opposition politicians. Trump and his allies maintain close political and financial ties with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two of the most prolific users of commercial spyware tools, and he showed little concern about those governments' human rights abuses in his first term.
“It's very likely that we see major rollbacks on spyware policy,” says Steven Feldstein, a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Trump officials are likely to care more about the anti-terrorism arguments of spyware makers than the criticisms of those tools from digital-rights advocates.
“Spyware companies will undoubtedly receive a more favorable audience under Trump,” Feldstein says, especially market leader NSO Group, which is closely tied to the Trump-aligned Israeli government.
doubtful prospects
Other Biden cyber initiatives are also at risk, though their fate is not as clear.
Biden's National Cyber Security Strategy Emphasized the need for greater corporate responsibility, arguing that well-resourced tech companies should do more to prevent hackers from misusing their products in destructive cyberattacks. Over the past few years, CISA has launched a messaging campaign to encourage companies to create their own products.Secure by Design“The Justice Department made A Citizen Cyber-Fraud Initiative to prosecute contractors who mislead the government about their security practices, and White House officials began considering proposals Hold software vendors accountable To harm the weak.
That corporate-accountability push is unlikely to get strong support from the incoming Trump administration, which is almost certain to be stocked with former business leaders hostile to government pressure.
Henry Young, senior director of policy at the software trade group BSA, predicts that the secure-by-design campaign will “evolve to more realistically balance the responsibilities of governments, businesses, and customers, and hopefully in favor of collaborative efforts.” Will stop pointing fingers.” “Continuing to improve security and resiliency.”
A Democratic administration could use the secure-by-design push as a springboard for new corporate regulations. Under Trump, secure-by-design will remain at most a rhetorical slogan. “The challenge will be to make it more concrete,” says a US cyber official.
slicing at the edges
A landmark cyber program may not be easily dismantled under a second Trump administration, but it could still be dramatically changed.
In 2022, Congress passed a law requiring CISA to create cyber incident reporting rules for critical infrastructure operators. CISA issued text Industry groups immediately reacted to the proposed rules in April, saying it went too far. Corporate America warned that CISA is asking for too much information from too many companies about too many incidents.