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Trump’s Cyber Security Executive Order Is ‘Blueprint’ For New Strategy, Bossert Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 24th, 2017

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Trump’s Cyber Security Executive Order Is ‘Blueprint’ For New Strategy, Bossert Says

Thomas Bossert, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. Photo: Atlantic Council.

The Trump administration is developing a new cyber security strategy that will build on work being done as part of an executive order the president signed in May and it will contain a vision, something the nation current lacks for cyber security, a senior White House official said on Tuesday.The “objective” is to put out a new cyber strategy and the “executive order gives you a good blueprint, and the blueprint is to organize our efforts into three component parts,”…

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