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Bolton eliminates White House Cybersecurity Coordinator position

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The National Security Council has officially decided to eliminate the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator role, a current U.S. official told CyberScoop. Until today, the position had an important role in synchronizing cybersecurity efforts across the federal government, including managing the execution of defensive and offensive cyber operations conducted by the Pentagon. The position was first created under the George W. Bush administration. The move follows the departure of former coordinator Rob Joyce on Friday. Joyce’s planned departure followed a 14-month stint where he pioneered the creation of several new cybersecurity policies and helped shed light on a secretive government disclosure framework, known as the Vulnerabilities Equities Process. The news was first reported by Politico and independently confirmed by CyberScoop. An email sent Tuesday to NSC staffers by an aide of national security adviser John Bolton described that the decision would help cut “another layer of bureaucracy.” The NSC currently employs […]

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Trump administration wants larger role in shaping international data laws

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The Trump administration plans to take an increased role in shaping rules surrounding internet governance over the next year in the wake of various international security and privacy laws being enacted, according to White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce. Joyce, who spoke Monday at a Washington, D.C. cybersecurity conference, described how the “fragmentation of the internet” had created challenges for the U.S. government as well as multinational American businesses. Companies, Joyce explained, now face data storage compliance requirements while operating abroad in some countries, like China. In June 2017, the Communist Party of China issued legislation that calls on foreign companies doing business in China to use domestic data centers and also provide confidential records when requested by Chinese government officials. “While we’re all concerned about cybercrime and how our internet works, we’re also really concerned about other countries around the world really creating this convoluted patchwork of laws and regulations […]

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