Almost a year into the second Trump administration, public sector leaders and cybersecurity experts say budget cuts and gutting of federal agencies are weakening critical lines of government communication to help companies prepare and respond to cyberattacks, even as AI threats are rising. The threat is changing and growing exponentially because of artificial intelligence, said Kaitlin Betancourt to CNBC, a partner at Goodwin. “I think the cybersecurity risks that we’re being presented with right now have gone sharply up. Any cutting back of resources is the opposite direction of where we need to be,” she said. “Trump’s order retains an emphasis on software supply chain cybersecurity. It retains much of the Biden administration’s framework but scales back prescriptive directives and enforcement mechanisms, particularly those related to secure software development “attestations,” Betancourt wrote with Goodwin colleagues Peter Marta, Jud Welle, Liza Craig, and Corey Berman.
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