The Trump Administration’s Early (Appropriate) Focus on Botnets

President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity, concentrating as it does on things largely within the authority of the executive branch, is a reasonable early approach to a very complicated public policy challenge. Its three components focus on preparatory steps to harmonize and modernize the federal government’s information technology (IT), better protect critical infrastructure, and improve the U.S. Government’s own cybersecurity strategies and policies.