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Industry Reactions to Trump's Executive Order on Cybersecurity

posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 15 2017, @10:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the overdue dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited executive order on cybersecurity.

Mainly, the order requires a number of cybersecurity reviews across the various agencies of the federal government, in order to determine what must be done to strengthen federal computer systems, as well as United States' critical infrastructure.

Here are some industry reactions to the executive order Help Net Security received.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/05/12/reactions-trump-cybersecurity/

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  • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday May 15 2017, @02:22PM (2 children)

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Monday May 15 2017, @02:22PM (#510024)

    And really, what was it supposed to say? "Create whitelists on your home routers, everyone?" As an overall Trump supporter, I see this as a meaningless thing he will likely say was "Taking action." However, there may be secondary and tertiary effects that such an executive order has on various government funding/investigative agencies that we are not aware of. A mandate of, "find out what's going on" from the President means jack shit to Bob the Administrator, but to a federal cybersecurity worker/agent? He may suddenly get clearance to work on a special project that did not have funding before, or something to that extent.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @04:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @04:38PM (#510097)

    Create whitelists on your home routers, everyone?

    Probably should have advised using a hosts file....

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @12:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @12:14AM (#510307)

    How's that working out for you?

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    This war on workers isn't a bug, but a feature of a White House that has turned its economic plan over to Goldman Sachs alums and stocked its cabinet with "billionaires, bankers, and bigots", in the words of Senator Elizabeth Warren. Trump could have pushed to forge a bipartisan coalition to back his populist promises. Instead he chose to let the Republican majority in Congress, driven by the radical Freedom Caucus, define his priorities. In his first months in office, he has betrayed the voters who put him there.

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