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A second CISA official predicted that “compliance efforts such as secure design may not have the support they currently enjoy.”
Pulling back from corporate control will be a top priority for Musk and other tech billionaires flocking to Trump. “Assuming Elon Musk stays in Trump’s good graces, the technology impact here will be significant,” says the cyber official.
CISA’s safe-by-design campaign “becomes toothless” without top-level support from the White House, says top CISA official. “Some companies will be less inclined to follow these (instructions) if they don’t believe the executive will support them.”
CISA officials are also anxiously watching to see if Trump officials pressure the cyber agency. his bill requires critical infrastructure operators to report cyber incidents. Congress mandated the rule in the 2022 spending bill, but groups representing infrastructure operators they complained That the requirements of the project, which must be finalized by the end of 2025, are very heavy. Trump may force CISA to reduce regulations to appease the private sector.
The cyber official says Trump and his allies “want to get rid of anyone who can enforce the rules, because then the rules don’t matter.” “In the case of CISA, this will be quite significant.”
CISA is also preparing for changes to its election security mission. The agency has already done so has drastically reduced conversations tracking online misinformation with social media companies right wing backlashbut Trump’s team could force CISA to give up more of its election security work. CISA officials are concerned that Trump will prevent the agency from participating in elections for state and local election officials. “True Information” initiativeit encourages Americans to listen to their local election supervisors instead of provocative online claims.
“I think the case is probably dead,” said a third CISA official.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security accepted election conspiracies After Biden’s 2020 victory. “Christy Noem is loyal to Trump, who supported him in the election tampering allegations, and now he will be in charge of the surveillance agency (CISA),” the cyber official said. “I have a lot of questions about what happened there.”
A third CISA official expects to see “a crackdown on election security” after Trump takes office.
Weakening of authorities
Trump’s victory could have serious consequences for other CISA missions.
CISA won under Biden wider authority and new finance for monitor the networks of other agencies for suspicious activity, making it the centralized defender of federal networks that many experts had always hoped it would be. That could change under Trump, especially if senior officials close to Trump end up under CISA surveillance.
