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SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Latest Cyber Draft EO Holds Dept., Agency Heads Accountable to President for EO’s Cybersecurity Policy, Directives

Homeland Security Today: Pursuant to the latest April 27 draft of Trump’s long awaited cybersecurity Executive Order (EO), Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, which was obtained by Homeland Security Today, “The President will hold accountable heads of executive departments and agencies for managing cybersecurity risk to their enterprises.”

“In addition,” the as yet made public EO states that “because risk management decisions made by agency heads can affect the risk to the executive branch as a whole and to national security, it is also the policy of the United States to manage cybersecurity risk as an executive branch enterprise.”

When it comes to risk management, the latest cybersecurity draft EO states, “Agency heads will be held accountable by the President for implementing risk management measures commensurate with the risk and magnitude of the harm that would result from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction of IT and data. They will also be held accountable by the President for ensuring that cybersecurity risk management processes are aligned with strategic, operational and budgetary planning processes, in accordance with chapter 35, subchapter II of title 44, United States Code.”

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