Bossert promises new national cybersecurity strategy

Trump administration officials are working on a new national cybersecurity strategy, building on the president’s executive order earlier this year, homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said Tuesday. “The president moved in his first months to put out an executive order to do the trench work necessary to put us in a position of putting forward a cybersecurity strategy,” he said at a Palo Alto Networks event Tuesday in Washington, D.C. “As soon as we’re prepared to issue a strategy that will be beneficial to the government and the nation, we’ll do so.” During a conversation on stage with Palo Alto Networks CEO Mark McLaughlin, Bossert said he was surprised and disappointed that the 2008 Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative he had helped craft during his time serving President George W. Bush still appeared to be the blueprint for U.S. strategy in cyberspace. “If you had told me that ten years later, I’d come […]

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