Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation's Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to strengthen the nation’s cybersecurity by focusing on critical protections against foreign cyber threats and enhancing secure technology practices. The order:

• Directs the Federal government to advance secure software development.
• Directs department and agency-level action on border gateway security to defeat hijacking of network interconnections.
• Directs department and agency-level actions on post-quantum cryptography to ensure protection against threats that may leverage next-generation compute architectures.
• Refocuses artificial intelligence cybersecurity efforts towards identifying and managing vulnerabilities.
• Directs technical measures to promulgate cybersecurity policy, including machine-readable policy standards and formal trust designations for “Internet of Things” as a way to ensure that Americans can know that their personal and home devices meet basic security engineering principles.