William Dixon
It is now a little over 100 days since Donald Trump entered the White House. The president’s impact on the world’s security landscape has been immediate and “seismic”. Not only on major flash points of global instability – War in Ukraine, the Middle East and the future of the NATO alliance – but across a whole swathe of often long-established foreign and domestic policy domains. For cyber leaders globally, the period since the January inauguration has been a wake-up call.
Cybersecurity was largely considered politically neutral for the past 20 years – a technical discipline, globally integrated and relatively vendor-agnostic. Not only in the US, but in the majority of technologically advanced countries. Arguably no longer. An “American First” agenda has led to major changes at the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), stalled emergency funding needed for the global database of cyber vulnerabilities and curtailed international cyber capacity-building efforts.
Today, the most far-reaching challenge for cyber leadership is the escalating global trade and tariff war. As the era of open markets fades, many in the cyber community are asking a fundamental question: Is the industry now destined to be restricted and repatriated like other strategic national assets?
Here are three ways the new global trade agenda is set to shape the strategies of the cyber C-suite around the world.
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