But cybersecurity observers on both sides of the political divide say the results of that disconnect have been a surprisingly mixed bag: The ongoing SolarWinds debacle shows how Trump's disjointed, self-serving failures of leadership have left the federal government struggling to pull together a coherent response to one of America's most serious cybersecurity failures in years. On almost every significant cybersecurity issue of the past year, President Trump has appeared to be either AWOL or at war with his own federal agencies. Now, even as attorney general William Barr and secretary of state Mike Pompeo have pointed to Russia as the culprit, Trump has responded by downplaying the crisis, suggesting intrusions might have been carried out by China instead.
Lack of oversight software#
This year was finally capped off by revelations of a disastrous hacking campaign that hijacked the software updates of IT management firm SolarWinds to breach a slew of federal agencies and tech firms. When CISA released a statement lauding the election as the " most secure in American history," contradicting the president's claims, Trump summarily fired CISA director Chris Krebs.
In late October, the president made an absurd declaration at a campaign rally that “nobody gets hacked.” That same week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration (CISA), Justice Department, and Treasury Department all took separate, landmark steps to counter Russian hacking- unsealing an indictment against six hackers in Russia's GRU military intelligence agency, imposing new sanctions on the Moscow research institute responsible for a uniquely dangerous piece of malware, and warning of an ongoing hacking campaign believed to be carried out by the FSB.Ī few weeks later, Donald Trump lost the election and laid the blame on false conspiracy theories about electoral hacking and fraud. When it comes to cybersecurity policy, the Trump administration's head and body have rarely seemed to agree.
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