Timothy H. Edgar
When Joe Biden took office as president in January 2021, he faced a cybersecurity crisis. According to the U.S. Intelligence Community, the threat environment was “acute.” Foreign adversaries were using “cyber operations to steal information, influence populations, and damage industry, including physical and digital critical infrastructure.” More than a year later, the situation is still dire. The good news is that Biden’s team is on it.
Donald Trump’s behavior contributed to the crisis. After the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency (CISA) stated that U.S. election of 2020 was “the most secure in American history,” Trump fired its first director, Chris Krebs—a man he had appointed—for refuting his wild and false claims of hacked voting machines. This followed Trump’s previous decisions to abolish high-level cyber positions at the White House and at the State Department.
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