Biden Tightens Cybersecurity Rules, Forcing Trump to Make a Choice - The New York Times
The president’s latest executive order accelerates the move to mandatory compliance by software providers. It may run afoul of the Trump mandate to deregulate.
The executive order requires software companies selling their product to the federal government to prove they included ironclad security features that can thwart Chinese intelligence agencies, Russian ransomware gangs, North Korean cryptocurrency thieves and Iranian spies.
The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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| A right whale with its calf in Cape Cod Bay last year. There were an estimated 370 North Atlantic right whales left as of 2023.Credit...Grade Solomon |
