A second CISA employee predicts that “compliance efforts like secure-by-design may not have the support that they currently benefit from.”
That retreat from corporate oversight will be a top priority of Musk and other tech billionaires who have flocked to Trump. “The tech influence here, assuming Elon Musk stays in Trump’s good graces, is going to be significant,” the cyber official says.
Without high-level White House backing, CISA’s secure-by-design campaign “becomes toothless,” says the first CISA employee. “Some companies will be less inclined to follow these [guidelines] if they don’t believe that the executive branch is going to support them.”
CISA employees are also watching uneasily to see if Trump officials pressure the cyber agency to water down its draft regulation requiring critical infrastructure operators to report cyber incidents. Congress mandated the…
