Businesses prepare to update their cybersecurity playbooks for Trump era amid increasing threats

“I would be surprised if the Trump administration would embrace new categories of liability,”  said Brandon Pugh, policy director for R Street Institute’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team. Instead, Pugh reckons, the new administration might “look to other market forces that could get to the same outcomes…”

Biden’s push for basic cybersecurity standards for all critical infrastructure sectors is unlikely to be pursued under the new administration, however, businesses should expect the new administration to continue streamlining existing mandates within various federal entities and state governments, said R Street Institute’s Pugh. Part of Biden’s goal in harmonizing cyber mandates was to remove duplicative requirements from different federal agencies in order to reduce the resource burdens for digital defenders. The incoming administration is expected to continue that trend.