Cybersecurity is poised to become a higher White House priority when President-elect Joe Biden takes office, and he’s expected to renew key international relationships in the fight against cyberattacks. Cyber policy was “clearly not a priority for Trump, generally,” says Christopher Painter, who until 2017 was the State Department’s coordinator for cyber issues. Biden has the background to forge alliances that are key to cybersecurity, says Kenneth Geers, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Ed Amoroso of TAG Cyber recommends that Biden resurrect the cybersecurity coordinator position that Trump eliminated, that the White House have its own CISO with the same standing as its director of IT, and that the administration split the National Security Agency from U.S. Cyber Command.
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